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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.
Against its field
WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationlocalportfolio match
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundationshared funders
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio match
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.
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 66 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Methodist Hospitals of Dallasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Ann Margolin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry S Moss Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eugene McDermott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fort Worth Promotion and Development Funportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Club of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
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 WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN: 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 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 12funders 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