- Revenue 2024
- $5,855,609
- Expenses 2024
- $5,069,215
Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- LOCAL
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 · 2024
Mission
To create an inspiring, unforgettable garden experience that instills a love of nature and its beauty.
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Horticulture - The horticulture staff is charged with the design, management, maintenance, preservation and presentation of the horticultural displays and collections. The horticulture department maintains an active plant database and ensures proper labeling of all plants for both tracking and public informational purposes.
Expenses $2,354,362
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Garden Events/Garden Store - The Garden provides a series of events annually that are open to the public and designed to attract new audience to the garden. The events are themed and are designed to encourage all guests to interact with the garden. Events range from a plant sale to themed children's events and targeted educational activities such as plant and environmentally themed products to all guests to extend their experience. These items range from activity kits for children to garden tools; the garden also offers unique and hard to find plants including those reproduced at the garden.
Expenses $917,802
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Education - The goal of the education department is to provide an array of plant based learning opportunities for a variety of audiences. School programs are offered for grades K through 12 with a focus on grades K to 5 curriculum developed to meet NC and SC standards. Community classes and lectures are developed to present horticultural practices to adult audiences. Interactive and education opportunities are developed for the daily guest and special tours and demonstrations are available for groups.
Expenses $718,280
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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John Searby
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $107,488
- From this org
- $107,488
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Harding Stowe
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
William Carstarphen
Vice Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth Wren
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Robert Wren
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Robert Ragan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tate Bowers
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gene Matthews
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Pat Rodgers
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Pam Warlick
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,855,609
- Expenses
- $5,069,215
- Contributions
- $3,527,446
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $3,663,198
- Expenses
- $4,621,466
- Contributions
- $1,740,331
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,413,804
- Expenses
- $4,384,972
- Contributions
- $1,715,212
- Grants paid
- $0
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
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,419,490
- Expenses
- $4,257,867
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,088,195
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,121,050
- Expenses
- $2,790,735
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,066,135
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,015,970
- Expenses
- $4,826,488
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,640,571
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,617,448
- Expenses
- $4,331,217
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,781,739
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,718,762
- Expenses
- $4,651,466
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,092,109
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,808,469
- Expenses
- $4,127,840
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,266,099
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,008,924
- Expenses
- $3,623,666
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,987,283
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,946,663
- Expenses
- $2,904,162
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,360,488
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $3,422,528
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,129,936
-
2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $3,262,849
- Assets (EOY)
- $17,862,137
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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$194,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$162,266
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$153,020
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$80,000
2022 CHARITABLE GIFT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$25,000
2022 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
-
$25,000
2024 CHARITABLE GIFT
-
$20,000
2023 CHARITABLE GIFT
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
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2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden Foundation
501C3 · Support · NC
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.