Grants for garden clubs

Name: Top 25 grants made to garden clubs and horticultural programs
Creator: Cause IQ
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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 art museums, historical societies, colleges, high schools, and food banks.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	136
Medium	34
Large	30

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	9
Private	166
Corporate	17
Other	8

Grants made

Grants made to garden clubs	Number of grantmakers
1	179
2-3	17
4-10	3
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting garden clubs and horticultural programs

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to garden clubs	Number of grants made to garden clubs	Median grant size
Greater Worcester Community Foundation	MA	Metro	0.4%	11	$1,379
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	5	$500
Clif Bar Family Foundation	CA	National	0.4%	4	$4,000
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	4	$150
Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation	MN	National	0.6%	2	$2,610
Eliasberg Family Foundation	MD	National	0.5%	2	$2,500
The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation	TX	Metro	0.5%	2	$1,750
Ernst and Elfriede Frank Foundation	NY	Regional	0.6%	2	$1,750
Christel DeHaan Family Foundation	IN	Metro	0.1%	2	$1,500
The Robert E and Marcia L Schaub Family Foundation	FL	National	5.0%	2	$1,225

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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	236
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,000
>$5M	$1,379

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	48
Massachusetts	30
Virginia	13
Pennsylvania	13
Other	133

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	44
Worcester	19
Boston	10
Portland, OR	9
Other	121

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

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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.