Illinois · Nonprofit
THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT
THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,022 to it, the largest being MICHAEL FIELDS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE INC ($45,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Central Illinois Incshared funderslocal
- Big Greenportfolio match
- Whole Cities Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT’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 MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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 MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Central Illinois Incshared funderslocalIL · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Big Greenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Cities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Services Unlimited Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Well Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Foods Market Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Leaf Foundation Nushin Kormi Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Sustainability and Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT?
- THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,022 to it, the largest being MICHAEL FIELDS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE INC ($45,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $82,022 in grants to THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT?
- MICHAEL FIELDS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MOTHERLAND GARDENS COMMUNITY PROJECT 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing