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DANIEL JONATHAN STOWE CONSERVANCY

EIN 56-1676433 BELMONT, NC

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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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • John Searby

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $107,488
    From this org
    $107,488
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • 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
  • 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

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

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.