Oregon · Nonprofit
Worthy Garden Club
Worthy Garden Club (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,980,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,980,000). 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 FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $921k
What Worthy Garden Club does
Mission
The primary purpose is to promote the conservation and scientific understanding of our natural resources and planet through research, education and awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
All other programs
$66,573 spent50% of program spendingThe greenhouse educates visitors on the growing process,how the environment affects the growing process, and gives the visitors a chance to see real growing areas.
$33,156 spent25% of program spendingThe nursery and garden center was added in 2022 to support the other programs as well as to provide goods and services to the public.
$18,937 spent14% of program spendingThe Worthy Garden Club Hopservatory opened in May of 2017 with the goal of raising scientific literacy and educating our visitors about big and unwieldy concepts like scale, size, time, distance, and speed in our solar system and beyond. We want people to be amazed and humbled by the beauty and diversity of our galactic garden as well as inspired to take care of our own planet.
$14,050 spent11% of program spendingThe wilderness area on the Oregon coast was purchased in 2018 to provide college students and other researchers with an area undisturbed by man to conduct scientific experiments of various types relating to earth's environment, including climate change, oceanography projects, etc. The area is now equipped with a small lodge which enables students and other researchers to conduct their studies on-site for longer periods of time.
$404 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,120.
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 2017 to 2018, from $127k to $606k (+379%).
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.
235% of Worthy Garden Club’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 1 funder, grant income rose $110k → $875k.
1 of 1 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 Worthy 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Worthy Garden Club'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. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Worthy Garden Club has grown faster than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Worthy 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
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Worthy 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 Worthy Garden Club?
- Worthy Garden Club (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,980,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,980,000). 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 Worthy Garden Club have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,980,000 in grants to Worthy Garden Club, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Worthy Garden Club?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Worthy 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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