Washington · Nonprofit
SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION
SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,118 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($7,342). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Skagit County Master Gardener Foundation does
Mission
Educate Skagit County residents on home horticulture
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Maintain and enhance our Discovery Garden, a demonstration garden open free to the public, visited by over 1,310 people a year, where we share knowledge about local food production, pollinators, native plants, "right plant-right place," water conservation, soil health, plant biodiversity, and sustainable gardening practices, while visitors benefit from our inspiring, relaxing, and beautiful location. This space is also one of our primary sites for outreach and education, including our Tulip Festival visitors (267), DIG-IT! Youth Outreach (300), and Open House visitors (384), events also described in Line 29 and included in people totals for both Line 28 and Line 29.
$35,994 spent91% of program spendingConduct free educational events for the public regarding home gardening, including lectures, open houses, science demonstrations, garden guide services, children's programs, farmers markets, county fair booths, and outreach during Latino community events. In 2024, we reached over 3,280 people during these events , some of which take place in our Discovery Garden as described in Line 28.
$2,861 spent7% of program spendingHost regular, plant problem diagnostic clinics for the public at no charge, to help people with their questions about plant selection; plant identification; plant care issues, such as pruning and fertilization; and plant disease questions. Over 1,540 people were served by our plant clinics during 2024.
$493 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,348.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $58k to $86k (+47%).
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.
95% of SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $92.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION’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
SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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
75% of SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION: 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 SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION?
- SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,118 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($7,342). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,118 in grants to SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKAGIT COUNTY MASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 3 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