SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C410

Classification

2000

Street

26300 CRENSHAW BLVD

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

• OVERALLPROGRAM SERVICE EXPENSES AND EARNED REVENUES SUPPORTED THE GARDEN'S MISSION TO CONNECT ALL PEOPLE TO THE WONDERS OF NATURE AND SERVED APPROXIMATELY 281,000 VISITORS DURING THE 2025 FISCAL YEAR. INVESTMENTS SUPPORTED MARKETING, DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT, AND MEMBERSHIP, AS WELL AS OPERATIONS THAT ENSURED A SAFE AND WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING FACILITY AND LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE, CUSTODIAL SERVICES, KOI POND CARE, THE RANGER PROGRAM, WAYFINDING, FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICES, TICKETING AND MEMBERSHIP SYSTEMS, AND LONG-TERM PLANNING FOR FUTURE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.

  Expenses $3,565,659 · Revenue $18,779

• HORTICULTUREHORTICULTURE IS CENTRAL TO SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN'S MISSION AND PUBLIC BENEFIT. A PROFESSIONAL TEAM MAINTAINS THE GARDEN'S LIVING COLLECTIONS USING SPECIALIZED TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT, WITH SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN PLANT PROCUREMENT FOR SEASONAL DISPLAYS, REPLACEMENT OF AGING OR UNSUCCESSFUL SPECIMENS, AND ONGOING EDITING OF COLLECTIONS TO ENSURE HORTICULTURAL INTEGRITY, CLIMATE-APPROPRIATE PLANTING, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS SUCH AS COOLING AND WATER CONSERVATION.

  Expenses $519,281

• ENGAGEMENTDURING THE 2025 FISCAL YEAR, THE GARDEN PRESENTED EXHIBITIONS AND PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCES ACROSS ITS 87 ACRES TO DEEPEN VISITOR ENGAGEMENT AND CONNECTION TO NATURE. THESE INSTALLATIONS ENCOURAGED EXPLORATION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, DISCOVERY, PLANT LEARNING, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND INCLUDED MAJOR EXHIBITIONS SUCH AS SOAR: TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES, ASTRA LUMINA, AND OUTDOOR ART EXPERIENCES LIKE HIDE AND SEEK AND BAMBOOZLED, AS WELL AS HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES INCLUDING WORKSHOPS, NATURE JOURNALING, AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $263,877 · Revenue $1,737,438

• EVENT OPERATIONSINVESTMENTS IN GUEST EXPERIENCES WERE IMPORTANT IN 2025 WITH AN EYE TOWARD ENHANCING GARDEN VISITS. FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES AND EXHIBITIONS WERE A CREATIVE INSPIRATION POINT FOR FOOD AND BEVERAGE MENUS THAT CONNECTED OUR GUESTS WITH THE GARDEN EVEN FURTHER. FOR INSTANCE, AGAVE SYRUP AND TEQUILA TASTINGS WERE PART OF SERVICE FOR THE SPIKED CELEBRATION OF AGAVE, AND THEMED COCKTAILS WERE PART OF THE SUNSET SERIES CONCERTS.

  Expenses $187,090

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,916,403

  Expenses

  $5,984,703

  Contributions

  $3,006,995

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,244,439

  Expenses

  $6,783,055

  Contributions

  $2,788,325

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,866,675

  Expenses

  $6,015,992

  Contributions

  $5,821,999

  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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,692,081

  Expenses

  $5,603,901

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,041,762

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,772,558

  Expenses

  $3,580,023

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,245,065

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,631,755

  Expenses

  $2,460,611

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,850,316

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,345,747

  Expenses

  $2,675,322

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,219,289

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,558,088

  Expenses

  $2,361,205

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,567,359

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,271,809

  Expenses

  $3,667,935

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,980,569

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,799,204

  Expenses

  $2,366,621

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,077,540

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,391,367

  Expenses

  $1,891,343

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,342,315

• 2009 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $325,560

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,786,046

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $104,483

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN GIFT FUND

  $100,000

  2023 · OPERATIONS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $89,968

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $85,101

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $73,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• MARYMOUNT CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY

  $29,597

  2023 · SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $28,025

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $25,642

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $25,000

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $1,750 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,050 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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