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WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN

WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,178 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$797k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$218k
Net assets
$709k
4/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Women's Council of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden does

Mission

The women's council promotes and supports the dallas arboretum and botanical garden. It has funded and maintains the design, construction, and endowment of a major garden, a woman's garden, at the dallas arboretum.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support the dallas arboretum and botanical garden and a woman's garden. To support the maintenance and improvement of a woman's garden located within the dallas arboretum and botanical garden. To provide and conduct educational programs for our members on the value that public gardens bring to a community and encourage participation the activities that add value to a woman's garden.

    $417,982 spentof which $370,337 as grants$49,701 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $417,982.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($375k) Expenses 100 ($661k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 67 ($252k) Expenses 33 ($216k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 199 ($745k) Expenses 40 ($262k) Net assets 153 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 110 ($412k) Expenses 173 ($1.1M) Net assets 86 ($860k)2021 Revenue 105 ($392k) Expenses 68 ($451k) Net assets 80 ($801k)2022 Revenue 160 ($598k) Expenses 104 ($685k) Net assets 71 ($714k)2023 Revenue 202 ($757k) Expenses 154 ($1.0M) Net assets 45 ($452k)2024 Revenue 180 ($676k) Expenses 114 ($756k) Net assets 38 ($379k)2025 Revenue 213 ($797k) Expenses 71 ($467k) Net assets 71 ($709k)
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Revenue (213)Expenses (71)Net assets (71)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.6M to $868k (−44%).

$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.6M
$868k
$808k
$777k
$461k
$499k
$712k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

103% of WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$286k
’17
$36k
’18
$483k
’19
−$732k
’20
−$59k
’21
−$87k
’22
−$262k
’23
−$80k
’24
$330k
’25
18
months of
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.

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Listed151617171820222420
Joined·+10+10+10+9+9+12+12+12
No longer listed·991087101016
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $49.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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: $78k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN raised.

From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN’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

WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN.

34%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 63% · 2019 93% · 2020 74% · 2021 47% · 2022 72% · 2023 100% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

76% of WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN'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. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Texas funders.

IL
MO
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN?
WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,178 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $218,178 in grants to WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 12 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