Colorado · Nonprofit
THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO
THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,062 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($22,057). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $39k
What The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado does
Mission
The mission of The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado is to grow a healthier community through garden programs, education, and access to local produce.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2019 The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado celebrated the 21st year of operation. The work of the organization continued the mission of creating healthy community through garden programs, education, and access to local produce. In 2019, the garden progect benefitted from the help of 2,782 volunteer hours from 783 volunteers on a variety of occasions. Volunteers continue to make the garden project thrive as the organization does not have a full time staff and are a small grassroots organization linking community members to their neighbors in outdoor greenspace. The organization was able to provide eight schools with educational gardening lessons and help support six other local garden projects. Through the education programs, the garden project served 3,942 youth and adults. Educators provided instruction through the in-school, after-school and summer camp programs for youth. These programs continue to teach important agrigulatural and science components including health and nutrition, growth and production of produce in a garden, farm to cafeteria initiatives and horticultural therapy. The garden project's food security wing was able to harvest and distribute 1,187 pounds of…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $31k to $56k (+79%).
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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $5.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO’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 PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
100% of THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Organizations like THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO
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 Colorado
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO?
- THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,062 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($22,057). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,062 in grants to THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GARDEN PROJECT OF SOUTHWEST COLORADO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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