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Grants for garden clubs
156 garden clubs and horticultural programs received at least $5.4 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 237 grants made from 200 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 200 foundations, 89% made just a single grant to garden clubs, and 2% made grants to four or more garden clubs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.
$5,402,238
Total grant dollars given to garden clubs
237
Number of grants made annually to garden clubs
200
Number of grantmakers funding garden clubs
$1,000
Median grant size to garden clubs
Foundations that support garden clubs and horticultural programs
Out of all grants made to garden clubs, 68% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 93% of the dollar-value of grants to garden clubs. Foundations funding garden clubs also made grants to
colleges,
historical societies,
art museums,
food banks, and
high schools.
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to garden clubs | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting garden clubs and horticultural programs
Garden clubs and horticultural programs grantees
Garden clubs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 96% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 39% of all garden clubs.
Grant amounts
| Size of grant | Number of grants |
|---|
| <$10k | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
|---|
| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
Top 25 grants made to garden clubs
| Grantee | Grant size | Purpose | Grantmaker |
|---|
| And Sculpture Park | $5,000,000 | Capital Campaign | Meijer |
| And Sculpture Park | $5,000 | General Support | Advisors Charitable Gift Fund |
| Horticultural Society of New York (HSNY) | $5,000 | Charitable | Rudin Management Company |
| Biodynamic Association | $5,000 | To Energize and Potentize the Biodynamic Community, Co-Creating Positive Transformation Through Dynamic Movement. | Raymond Family Foundation |
| Cecil County Extension Advisory Council | $5,000 | Education | The Columbus Foundation |
| Portland Japanese Garden | $5,000 | To Establish and Maintain A Formal Japanese Garden in the City of Portland for Educational, Scientific, Cultural, Literary & Charitable Purpose | Collins Foundation |
| The Garden Conservancy | $5,000 | Social Benefits | The Bunny Williams Foundation |
| Becker Green Classroom | $5,000 | Unrestricted Contribution | Parks Family Foundation |
| Tower Hill Botanic Garden | $5,000 | Education Programs | Rockwell Foundation |
| Friends of Oak Cliff Parks | $5,000 | Community Outreach | Methodist Health System |
| Sage Gardeners | $5,000 | 2019 Senior Gardening Program | Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation |
| Ste Genevieve County Master Gardeners | $5,000 | General Operating Support | Community Foundation of the Ozarks (CFO) |
| Lake Minnetonka Garden Club | $5,000 | Young Gardeners Initiative | Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation |
| Kalamazoo Garden Council | $5,000 | Ramp Project | Tyler-Little Family Foundation |
| Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP) | $5,000 | Pop Harvest Program | Newman's Own Foundation |
| North Country Garden Club of Long Island | $5,000 | General | The Stebbins Fund |
| Horticultural Society of New York (HSNY) | $5,000 | Culture and Education | The Mam-Nwj Foundation |
| The Garden Conservancy | $5,000 | General Charitable Operations | Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation |
| Biodynamic Association | $5,000 | General Use | Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation |
| The Garden Club of Virginia | $5,000 | Statewide Landscape Preservation | The Mraz Charitable Trust |
| Wellington Garden Club | $5,000 | To Further the Education of the Members and the Public in the Fields of Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, Floral Design, Landscape Design, and Environmental Awareness | Davis-Mccullough Foundation |
| Crown Community Garden | $5,000 | To Assist the Entity During the Covid-19 Pandemic | Methodist Health System Foundation (MHSF) |
| Federated Garden Clubs of New York State - Town & Country GC Cortland-Homer | $5,000 | Garden Restoration | Central New York Community Foundation |
| The Garden Club of Norfolk | $5,000 | Support, Unspecified | Hampton Roads Community Foundation |
| And Sculpture Park | $5,000 | Donation for Operations | James and Almeda Vander Waals Foundation |
Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Garden clubs" category for this page is determined by the "C42: Garden Club, Horticultural Program" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.