Oregon · Nonprofit
THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB
THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,840 to it, the largest being THE HORSTKOTTE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($17,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $698k
What The Portland Garden Club does
Mission
Stimulate the knowledge & love of gardening, to aid in the protection of native trees, plants & birds, to encourage civic beauty, and to improve & protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of conservation and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Portland Garden Club is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 333 members throughout the portland, oregon area. The club actively maintains the clubhouse and surrounding gardens for the benefit of the general public to hold educational programs and monthly speaker series for the community. Books & subscriptions on plants/gardens and conservation are also available to the public. Pgc members passionately devote our energies and expertise to a wide array of projects in our community. Our flower shows, monthly speaker programs, and funding through grants, along with our hands-on work parties in community gardens, help us to fulfill our mission. Current mission activity includes restoring the lilac garden at duniway park.
$223,974 spent$6,042 earned by the program84% of program spendingCommunity outreach grants to non-profit organizations, operating in the portland metro area, whose purpose is similar to the mission of The Portland Garden Club to further conservation, education, and beautification. The Portland Garden Club awards scholarships annually to graduate students in oregon colleges/universities who are studying in the fields of botany or botany related fields.
$44,201 spentof which $44,201 as grants16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $268,175.
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 2018 to 2019, from $390k to $612k (+57%).
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.
82% of THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $989k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Portland Garden Club Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB raised.
From the IRS filings of THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB’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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 67% · 2022 83% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB has grown faster than half 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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB: 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 PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB?
- THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,840 to it, the largest being THE HORSTKOTTE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($17,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $36,840 in grants to THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB?
- THE HORSTKOTTE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PORTLAND GARDEN CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 5 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