Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD
NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,527 to it, the largest being GARDINER HOWLAND SHAW FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $66k
What New Garden Society Ltd does
Mission
Since 2013 The New Garden Society TNGS has trained hundreds of incarcerated and detained students in Greater Boston in the art and science of plants In prisons prison hospitals and youth facilities our students are 13- 80 years old Every week in prison classrooms we teach core horticulture concepts Students apply these concepts in prison gardens and greenhouses find healing and build job skills TNGS prison-based training is taught by horticulturists farmers landscapers and other green industry professionals bringing their diverse plant expertise and land care experiences to every classroom
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
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The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $28k to $67k (+136%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $26k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 72% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 54% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD?
- NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,527 to it, the largest being GARDINER HOWLAND SHAW FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $194,527 in grants to NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD?
- GARDINER HOWLAND SHAW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing