Illinois · Nonprofit
THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION
THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being JAPANESE MUTUAL AID SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $500
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Garden of the Phoenix Foundation does
Mission
The Garden of the Phoenix Foundation was established in 2009 as a not-for-profit organization in order to partner with the Chicago Park District to ensure that the Garden of the Phoenix is maintained and enhanced as an extraordinary public space for all visitors to learn about Japan and experience Japanese culture while enjoying a place of great historical significance and natural beauty. Over the past 120 years, the Garden of the Phoenix has evolved to become one of the most important sites in America reflecting the past and future of U.S.-Japan relations.To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the covenant signed by Japan and the City of Chicago that this richly historic space would be maintained in perpetuity, the Chicago Park District planted over 120 cherry trees in Jackson Park, and a new website was launched to share the Garden's stories now and with future generations through the generous support of the Omron Foundation, Inc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Garden of the Phoenix Foundation is a tax exempt organization which has partnered with the Chciago Park District to ensure that the Garden of the Phoenix is maintained and enhanced as an extraordinary public space for all visitors to learn about Japan and experience Japanese culture while enjoying a place of great historical significance and natural beauty. It does so by coordinating with the Chicago Park District various cultural, educational, and volunteer activities at The Garden of Phoenix, including archiving and research for the website and tree plantings.
$250 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $250.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $8k (−87%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX 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
THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% 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 OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION.
“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
100% of THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
59%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX 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 THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION?
- THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being JAPANESE MUTUAL AID SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,000 in grants to THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARDEN OF THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION?
- JAPANESE MUTUAL AID SOCIETY OF CHICAGO 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 THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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