Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY
SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,761 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $798k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $383k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Seattle Chinese Garden Society does
Mission
In a park-like setting, the seattle chinese garden enhances and serves the community and people of all backgrounds through educational and cultural programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Traditional sichuan-style garden - the garden serves the community through a dual focus on nature and culture. It celebrates seattle's rich chinese heritage and increases understanding of china as an important global and regional partner in the areas of cultural exchange, education, and business. The 5-acre park-like garden site is open to the public seven days a week, free of charge. Docent-led tours are available for community and educational organizations. Astra lumina is a ticketed, open-air night walk attraction.
$374,279 spent$225,998 earned by the program100% of program spendingKite festival - our annual family-focused kite festival. An afternoon of activitities included kite flying, displays and demonstrations and kite coloring for children.
Peony and bamboo festival - now our most popular annual event, the peony and bamboo festival draws people of all ages and backgrounds, including many families with children. The festival offers cultural entertainment, talks and demonstrations on plant care, plant and craft sales and educational and displays emphasizing the importance of peonies and bamboo in chinese arts and cultural traditions.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $374,279.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $3.9M (+11%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 2% · 2022 23% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $49.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN 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
SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
95% of SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN 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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $363k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY?
- SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $382,761 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $382,761 in grants to SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing