Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,168,766
- Total expenses
- $3,104,382
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,887,004
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $885
- Other revenue
- $280,877
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,872,569
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,228,712
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,643,857
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,634,375
- Management and general expenses
- $325,762
- Fundraising expenses
- $144,245
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,634,375
Program services were 84.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1b · Membership dues
$1,125,866
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,761,138
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3 · Investment income
total $885 · excluded $885
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6a · Gross rents
real property $33,813
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $33,813 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $33,813 · unrelated business $31,200 · excluded $2,613
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$53,195
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total -$53,195 · excluded -$53,195
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11a · Other revenue: Content Licensing
total $280,250 · related or exempt $280,250
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11b · Other revenue: Service Fees
total $9,070 · related or exempt $9,070
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11c · Other revenue: Herbal Gram
total $10,939 · related or exempt -$1,142 · unrelated business $12,081
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11e · Other revenue, total
$300,259
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $382,401 · program services $309,745 · management and general $53,536 · fundraising $19,120
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $902,138 · program services $730,732 · management and general $126,299 · fundraising $45,107
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $34,128 · program services $27,644 · management and general $4,778 · fundraising $1,706
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $158,919 · program services $128,724 · management and general $22,249 · fundraising $7,946
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $93,940 · program services $76,091 · management and general $13,152 · fundraising $4,697
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11g · Fees: other
total $491,354 · program services $458,872 · management and general $23,934 · fundraising $8,548
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $135,124 · program services $135,124
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13 · Office expenses
total $98,759 · program services $79,995 · management and general $13,826 · fundraising $4,938
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14 · Information technology
total $272,339 · program services $220,595 · management and general $38,127 · fundraising $13,617
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16 · Occupancy
total $56,398 · program services $45,682 · management and general $7,896 · fundraising $2,820
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17 · Travel
total $869 · program services $704 · management and general $122 · fundraising $43
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20 · Interest
total $46,719 · program services $37,842 · management and general $6,541 · fundraising $2,336
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $105,926 · program services $85,800 · management and general $14,830 · fundraising $5,296
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23 · Insurance
total $58,360 · program services $47,272 · management and general $8,170 · fundraising $2,918
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24a · Other expenses: Bad Debt Expense
total $232,510 · program services $204,609 · fundraising $27,901
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24e · All other expenses
total $34,498 · program services $44,944 · management and general -$7,698 · fundraising -$2,748
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $55,256 · end of year $160,518
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $2,912 · end of year $2,361
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $1,188,589 · end of year $1,075,914
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $64,106 · end of year $4,824
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $43,491 · end of year $50,839
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $7,723 · end of year $7,722
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$2,789,148
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$1,218,757
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,491,197 · end of year $1,570,391
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $240,069 · end of year $169,988
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $1,033,867 · end of year $1,058,724
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,577,789 · end of year $1,643,857
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
American Botanical Council was created to provide the public with responsible information on herbs and medicinal plants.
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American Botanical Council (ABC) is a nonprofit, member-supported organization whose mission is to provide education using science-based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine - serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry, and media.
Expenses $2,634,375
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Josef Brinkmann
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Bernadette M Marriott Phd
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Holly Shimizu
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Michael J Balick Phd
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Joseph M BetzPhd
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Chris Hobbs
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Tierona Low Dog
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Mark Blumenthal
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $227,870
- From this org
- $213,328
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $14,542
- Hours/week
- 60
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $213,328
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $6,264
- Nontaxable benefits
- $8,278
- Filer's total
- $227,870
-
Stefan Gafner
Chief Science Officer
- Total calculated
- $178,630
- From this org
- $163,394
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $15,236
- Hours/week
- 60
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $163,394
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $4,779
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,457
- Filer's total
- $178,630
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
None.
Answered no
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
- 9 · Followed the rebuttable-presumption procedure
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 6 August 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202622239349301232
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