DESCANSO GARDENS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C410

Classification

1200

Street

1418 DESCANSO DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• STEWARDSHIP OF A HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT SITE; PUBLIC HORTICULTURE AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT; EXPERIENTIAL NATURE-BASED PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES; OPPORTUNITY FOR VOLUNTEERISM; ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND PRESERVATION; AND LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT AND WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES. IN 2025, DESCANSO GARDENS WELCOMED NEARLY 1,013,000 VISITORS TO THE GARDENS. DESCANSO IS A MEMBER-SUPPORTED GARDEN: IN 2025, AROUND 31,870 HOUSEHOLDS SUPPORTED DESCANSO'S MISSION THROUGH PAID ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS. DESCANSO GARDENS IS ACCREDITED BY THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS.

  Expenses $15,162,955 · Grants $10,700 · Revenue $11,127,092

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $17,208,622

  Expenses

  $17,843,245

  Contributions

  $5,276,564

  Grants paid

  $10,700

• 2024

  Revenue

  $16,854,161

  Expenses

  $16,663,490

  Contributions

  $5,359,628

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $17,462,988

  Expenses

  $15,171,771

  Contributions

  $6,471,865

  Grants paid

  $14,355

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,704,728

  Expenses

  $13,160,520

  Contributions

  $4,898,021

  Grants paid

  $14,908

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2025 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,487,216

  Expenses

  $9,518,122

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,003,648

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,352,909

  Expenses

  $5,917,333

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,011,837

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,463,936

  Expenses

  $9,241,410

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,159,425

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,644,957

  Expenses

  $8,787,621

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,733,560

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION

  $14,908

  2022 · MUSICAL PROGRAMMING SUPPORT

• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS - SGV

  $14,355

  2023 · MUSICAL PROGRAMMING SUPPORT

• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

  $10,700

  2025 · DONATION WAS MADE AS PART OF A PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENT FOR THE SCHOOL TO PERFORM AT ENCHANTED

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Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $1,056,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $79,802

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $76,094

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $75,100

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $65,435

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $60,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

• ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC

  $60,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $60,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $56,350

  2023 · Donor Advised

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $50,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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