Georgia · Nonprofit
SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC
SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,656 to it, the largest being LEODELLE LASSITER JOLLEY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $186k
What Smith Gilbert Gardens Foundation Inc does
Mission
Improvement and maintenance of historical home and gardens for the general public's education and enjoyment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide advisory assistance and resources to city of kennesaw (owner of property) for preservation, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of historical property, including botanical preserve, antebellum house, koi ponds, bonsai garden, and sculpture gardens.
$300,462 spent100% of program spendingPromote existence and use of smith gilbert gardens as a community asset via increased name recognition, development of membership programs and events, building web site and to assist in fundraising.
$533 spent0% of program spendingProvide educational opportunities to citizens of kennesaw about historical aspects of property, development of sculpture garden and botanical preserve, history of house and grounds, and bonsai gardening techniques via classes and lectures given by volunteers and paid experts.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,995.
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 2021 to 2022, from $149k to $186k (+25%).
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.
100% of SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $9k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION 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
SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206 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
SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC?
- SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,656 to it, the largest being LEODELLE LASSITER JOLLEY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $206,656 in grants to SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC?
- LEODELLE LASSITER JOLLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMITH GILBERT GARDENS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 6 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