California · Nonprofit
OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC
OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,342,679 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($1,744,835). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Olivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to nourish communities and cultivate a deep connection to the environment through nutrition education, sustainable urban agriculture, collective advocacy, and intergenerational leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's garden and nutrition education program: the children's program delivers a highly effective model of environmental and health science curriculum in our indoor/outdoor laboratory. Children rotate through three structured sessions of hands-on science, gardening, and culinary and nutrition lessons. All 4th grade students in national school district are served on site and all students in grades tk-6th were served at their schools through garden based science and nutrition programs. Olivewoods new after school program serves students of all ages at the 10 national school district schools through a 7-week experiential learning program utilizing hydroponics units and cooking carts to teach agriculture and culinary skills. The olivewood team manages the 10 hydroponics units and the 10 national school district school gardens. Served 3679 students through year-round programming and harvested 1150 pounds of produce from school gardens.
$743,014 spent$58,822 earned by the program40% of program spendingProperty preservation & agriculture: olivewood is the steward of the historic 8-acre property donated by the walton family in 2006. The property hosts a restored princess anne victorian house built by oliver noyes in 1896. We regularly open the property to the public for children and families to enjoy the history and beauty of the house and gardens. The property helps to connect people to the agricultural history and growth of national city. Our lush gardens provided food for community members throughout the year, with over 8100 pounds of produce going to the community through our weekly donation-based produce stand and nutrition programs.
$532,537 spent29% of program spendingAdult, youth, and community programs: adults served through cooking for salud, kitchenistas development program, volunteers and internship program, adult cooking classes and events, and national city healthy culturas coalition. Youth and adults served through community events and programs including day of play, talls and smalls, halloween healthy haunted garden, holiday bazaar, youth and family field trips: served 6,000+.
$414,371 spent$62,133 earned by the program22% of program spendingOverall programs by the numbers- during the 2024-2025 year, olivewood served nearly 10,000 youth and adults from throughout the san diego/tijuana border region and beyond.top programs1) children's garden and nutrition education program:the children's program delivers a highly effective model of environmental and health science curriculum in our indoor/outdoor laboratory. Children rotate through three structured sessions of hands-on science, gardening, and culinary and nutrition lessons.outcomes:- 91% of parents report that their families are eating more fruits and vegetables- 82% of parents report that their children talks about helping the environment- 82% of teachers report their students demonstrate healthier eating habitsadditional childrens programs - chefcitos cooking classes- talls and smalls- garden explorers- field trips2) cooking for salud! Cooking for salud!, our parent nutrition education program, is teaching parents how to make healthy changes at home that will improve their families short and long-term health outcomes. Cooking for saludtm is a behavior modification program that gives families tools to change their cooking and eating habits, as well as transform the…
$153,796 spent$20,074 earned by the program8% of program spendingHigh school programs: high school students participated in a variety of programs include four internships throughout the year focused on sustainable urban agriculture, garden to kitchen connections, culinary skills, leadership, placemaking, and community building. Served 62 high school students through multi-week internships.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,843,718.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $5.4M to $7.5M (+37%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Sabrina Falquier Montgrain Md
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $214k → $1.9M.
9 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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
OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 88% · 2019 45% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- International Community Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC?
- OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,342,679 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($1,744,835). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $5,342,679 in grants to OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC?
- Alumbra Innovations Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,744,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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