The Garden Club of America
New York, NY · EIN 13-1626773. Reported 45 grants totalling $572,500 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Garden Club of America, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C420) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 8% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Garden Club of Rye Inc | Rye, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas Garden Clubs Inc | Tyler, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Garden Club of Evanston | Evanston, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Garden Club | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Twin City Garden Club | Winston Salem, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess Counties Inc | Newburgh, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little Rock Garden Club | Little Rock, AR | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Georges Garden Club Inc | Brooklandvl, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Garden Club of the Halifax Country Inc | Ormond Beach, FL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Albemarle Garden Club Inc | Charlottesvle, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Allyns Creek Garden Club Inc | Honeoye Falls, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beaumont Botanical Gardens Inc | Beaumont, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedar Rapids Garden Club | Cedar Rapids, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Des Moines Founders Garden Club | Wdm, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Garden Club of Englewood | Cresskill, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Garden Club of Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Garden Club of Madison | Madison, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Garden Club of Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Garden Club of Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Garden Club of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Garden Study Club of New Orleans | Metairie, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glenview Garden Club Inc | Crestwood, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Green Spring Valley Garden Club Inc | Brooklandvl, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grow It Green Morristown Inc | Morristown, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kanawha Garden Club Inc | Charleston, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lenox Garden Club | Lenox, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Garden Club of Columbus | Blacklick, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Memphis Garden Club | Memphis, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Orleans Town Gardners | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Country Garden Club of L I Inc | Locust Valley, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Perennial Planters Garden Club Inc | Providence, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Piedmont Garden Club | Piedmont, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| River Oaks Garden Club | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shaker Lakes Garden Club | Cleveland Hts, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shreveport Garden Study Club | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stony Brook Garden Club of Princeton Inc | Lawrenceville, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Garden Club of Allegheny County | Sewickley, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Three Harbors Garden Club Inc | Cold Spg Hbr, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wissahickon Garden Club | Wyndmoor, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woodside-Atherton Garden Club | Menlo Park, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
5 of 40 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $142,500 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 12 | $150,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $110,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $170,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
17% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Garden Club of America's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 14 East 60TH Street 3RD Fl, New York, NY, 10022.
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