Help serve the families who need it most.
Thanks to your generosity, we reached our spring 2025 Scholarship Campaign goal! Together, we unlocked the full $27,000 match, doubling the impact of your gift and raising an extraordinary $54,000 to support over 100 local families.
While the campaign has ended, the need continues. You can give to the scholarship fund year-round to help ensure every child can experience the magic of the Garden, no matter their family’s financial circumstances.
Ithaca Children’s Garden is home to Tompkins County’s most progressive scholarship program, ensuring that no child is ever turned away due to financial limitations. In 2024 alone, your support allowed us to serve over 100 local families.
This year, ICG is launching its annual Scholarship Fund Campaign on April 1, with a goal of raising $54,000 to once again provide scholarships for over 100 local families. Plus, donors have an exciting opportunity to double their impact. Thanks to a generous $27,000 matching gift, every dollar contributed will go twice as far. But to meet the goal, the community must rally together by April 30.
Your gift to ICG’s scholarship fund is more than a donation — it’s an investment in our collective future. Parents have shared how our programs ignite a love for gardening, deepen care for the environment, and foster personal growth, shaping future careers and nurturing self-confidence, social connections, and awareness.
With your help, we’re connecting children to nature, fostering a more beautiful, resilient, and just world.
Don’t just take our word for it — explore the stories of impact below.
“ICG’s scholarship program made us feel like we could afford something really special that otherwise would’ve seemed exclusive to folks with more money. When you’re a parent, no matter your financial situation, you always want the best for your kid. You just can’t get that kind of care for this price anywhere.”
-Excerpt from Laurie’s Scholarship Story
“Living downtown as a single mom, I wouldn’t be able to send him to ICG without the scholarship. The scholarship and the program have made such a positive impact on [my son’s] life. When I ask him where he wants to go and what he wants to do, his response is always the same: ‘Children’s Garden, obviously.'”
-Excerpt from Sarah’s Scholarship Story
“The scholarship has made it possible for us to continue sending our daughter to PNE and she is loving the time she is spending there. We would definitely be financially strained without the assistance we are receiving.”
-Excerpt from Brianna’s Scholarship Story
“As a single mom who is a domestic abuse survivor, I can say that resources are not always as plentiful as people might think. When a program comes through that is able to offer my children a sense of normalcy amidst what they have experienced and can provide an opportunity to have a good time being children and having a healthy, supportive childhood experience, that can be very impactful.”
-Excerpt from Evelyn’s Scholarship Story
Ithaca Children’s Garden is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. TIN: 52-2291247. EIN: 52-2291247 ICG’s mailing address is 1013 W. State St., Ithaca, NY 14850. (This is different than our Physical address: 121 Turtle Way, Ithaca NY 14850.)