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PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC

PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,855 to it, the largest being David and Elita Balfour Foundation ($1,930). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$51k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$140k
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Pasadena Garden Club Inc does

Mission

Horticultural education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Program service expenditures were in furtherance of the educational objectives of the garden club of america.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($126k)2018 Revenue 184 ($88k) Expenses 109 ($77k) Net assets 109 ($137k)2019 Revenue 236 ($113k) Expenses 112 ($79k) Net assets 136 ($171k)2020 Revenue 118 ($57k) Expenses 82 ($58k) Net assets 136 ($170k)2021 Revenue 90 ($43k) Expenses 108 ($76k) Net assets 109 ($137k)2022 Revenue 123 ($59k) Expenses 139 ($99k) Net assets 78 ($98k)2023 Revenue 165 ($80k) Expenses 130 ($92k) Net assets 68 ($85k)2024 Revenue 305 ($146k) Expenses 97 ($69k) Net assets 129 ($163k)2025 Revenue 107 ($51k) Expenses 104 ($74k) Net assets 112 ($140k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (104)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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 $93k to $171k (+83%).

$132k
$144k
$171k
$170k
$137k
$98k
$93k
$171k
$150k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’17
$12k
’18
$34k
’19
−$1k
’20
−$33k
’21
−$39k
’22
−$12k
’23
$78k
’24
−$22k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $600.

From the IRS filings of PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC’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

PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 83% — 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

79% of PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
HI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC has grown faster than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−43% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC: 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 PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC?
PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,855 to it, the largest being David and Elita Balfour Foundation ($1,930). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,855 in grants to PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC?
David and Elita Balfour Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,930 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PASADENA GARDEN CLUB 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 5 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