Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,264,675 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($721,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocal
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio match
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 14% · 2018 20% · 2019 38% · 2020 55% · 2021 20% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of Pittsburgh Botanic Garden’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $353k → $878k.
10 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 49% · 2019 59% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% — 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
47% of Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
97% of Pittsburgh Botanic Garden's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $704k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 63 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Plant Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Casey Treesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morton Arboretumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irene C Shea Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- The Buhl Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 109 organizations that share your funders · funds 181 organizations near you
- Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocalPA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
- Massey Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Jefferson Regional Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders · funds 144 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Pittsburgh Botanic Garden receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- Department of the Interior$53k
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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden?
- Pittsburgh Botanic Garden (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,264,675 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($721,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pittsburgh Botanic Garden have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $4,264,675 in grants to Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pittsburgh Botanic Garden?
- ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $721,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pittsburgh Botanic Garden find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 63funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing