Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE GARDEN OF GIVING
THE GARDEN OF GIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,102 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Garden of Giving does
Mission
The mission of the gardn of giving is to provide high quality vegetables and eggs to the local food banks in monroe county pa. They also provide programs and services that are centered on improving the quality of life and teach the importance of including vegetables in daily meals for all residents in monroe and carbon counties pa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide high quality vegetables and eggs to the food banks of monroe county pennsylvania. The Garden of Giving also provides programs and services that improve the quality of life and stress the importance using vegetables in daily meals for all residents in monroe county and carbon county pennsylvania.
$26,756 spentof which $15,735 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $45k to $0 (−100%).
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 58% · 2021 86% · 2022 28% · 2023 12% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE GARDEN OF GIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Tammy Graeber
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
1 of 4 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 THE GARDEN OF GIVING’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 OF GIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
63% of THE GARDEN OF GIVING's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102 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 OF GIVING has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE GARDEN OF GIVING
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GARDEN OF GIVING: 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 THE GARDEN OF GIVING?
- THE GARDEN OF GIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,102 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GARDEN OF GIVING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $24,102 in grants to THE GARDEN OF GIVING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARDEN OF GIVING?
- ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GARDEN OF GIVING 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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