South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC
THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $612 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($452). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $612
- Net assets
- $757k
What The Garden Club of South Carolina Inc does
Mission
Gcsc is a force for good that promotes all aspects of gardening, focusing on preservation and restoration of historic gardens, conservation and environmental protection of natural resources, education of members and youth organizations, civic beautification, horticulture and floral design.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gcsc educates adult and youth members through continuing education programs including garden study, horticulture, floral design, landscape design, environmental stewardship, and by sponsoring four schools: garden study school, flower show school, landscape design school, environmental studies school. Gcsc promotes the national garden club objectives of gardening, civic beautification, historic preservation, conservation and environmental stewardship through club and council engagement, statewide education, grant opportunities, awards programs and networking opportunities for clubs and the general public to unite as a force for good. Gcsc maintains an historic memorial garden at 1111 lincoln st, columbia, sc, a historic garden adjacent to the governor's mansion designed by loutrel briggs, that houses a veteran's honor brick walkway. Gcsc sponsors youth involvement through poetry, essay, smoky bear and woodsy owl national awareness campaigns, camp wildwood environmental leadership camp, arbor day and earth day school programs, youth floral design and recycled sculpture contests.
$72,333 spent$65,791 earned by the program80% of program spendingGcsc sponsors 5 categories of scholarship: babs barnette environmental scholarship, hessie morrah horticulture scholarship, reba wall youth camper leadership scholarship, president's scholarship for general study. Gcsc offers blue and gold star marker grants for clubs who wish to install, adopt or beautify highway and byway markers that honor veterans.
$18,000 spentof which $18,000 as grants$15,058 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $90,333.
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 2024 to 2025, from $655k to $757k (+16%).
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.
44% of THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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 $110 → $40.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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
THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
74% 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 THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
74% of THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC'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 $160 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452 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
THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $612 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($452). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $612 in grants to THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $452 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GARDEN CLUB OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2 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