California · Nonprofit
PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY
PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Pacific Horticulture Society does
Mission
Pacific Horticulture provides science-based climate solutions that elevate the role of horticulture to build a resilient future.Pacific Horticulture empowers you to take action in your own garden and community landscape.Our learning offerings address local and regional practices applicable to home and community gardens, developed landscapes and ecological restorations. Programs demonstrate what beautifully designed climate-appropriate gardens and landscapes can be at every scale.Pacific Horticulture welcomes you to our network. Connect with those who are also using the power of gardens to enrich lives and heal the environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pacific Horticulture provides science-based climate solutions that elevate the role of horticulture to build a resilient future. Pacific Horticulture empowers you to take action in your own garden and community landscape. Our learning offerings address local and regional practices applicable to home and community gardens, developed landscapes and ecological restorations. Programs demonstrate what beautifully designed climate-appropriate gardens and landscapes can be at every scale. Pacific Horticulture welcomes you to our network. Connect with those who are also using the power of gardens to enrich lives and heal the environment.
$168,298 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $168,298.
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 2019 to 2020, from $81k to $208k (+158%).
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.
26% of PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
Don Baldocchi
Interim Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $14k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY’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
PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
60% of PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY
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.
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 PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY: 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 PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY?
- PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,949 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $71,949 in grants to PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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