FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL ARBORETUM INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C114

Classification

1200

Street

3501 NEW YORK AVE NE

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Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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• NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

  EIN 52-1284404

• NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA GARDEN CLUBS INC

  EIN 52-6050420

• NCAGC VIRTUAL GARDEN CLUB

  EIN 99-4116280

Mission and programs · 2024

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $998,431 · Grants $5,031

• Projects and activities: FONA holds numerous temporary and permanently restricted funds given for various purposes to benefit the U.S. National Arboretum. Every year, in consultation with the Arboretum leadership and staff, FONA releases funds from these restricted assets or general operating funds to the Arboretum to achieve a designated purpose. FONA then works with the Arboretum staff, often over a multi-year period, to ensure that the donors objective for each project or activity is fulfilled in a timely and cost-effective manner. For example, in recent years, FONA has collaborated with the Arboretum on the following projects and activities: -Updating the Arboretums Master Plan and identifying follow-on campaigns and related activities. -Cleanup and restoration as well as ongoing monitoring of Springhouse Run along with monitoring of Hickey Run, two crucial watercourses that traverse the Arboretum, emptying into the Anacostia River and ultimately into the Chesapeake Bay. -Completion of the Flowering Tree Walk, a universal access walkway providing magnificent views of the Arboretums great meadow and Capitol Columns. -Preservation and maintenance of the Arboretums heritage collections, which include the azalea, boxwood, and associated collections; and for general support of all the Arboretum gardens and collections, including funding for interpretive signage. -Funding support for many internships, including: those working in the azalea, boxwood, Asia valley, introduction garden, and other heritage collections and on research. -Luncheon and plant sales as well as promotional support for the annual Lahr Native Plant Symposium. -Evaluating opportunities to support repair of the Capitol Columns and fund their care in perpetuity.

  Expenses $589,497 · Grants $118,918

• Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale Event: The Garden Fair is held in early spring and typically attracts 10,000 people to the grounds of the Arboretum. Traditionally, the National Arboretum curators serve as plant experts providing advice for novice as well as experienced gardeners.

  Expenses $253,809

• Membership and outreach: FONA runs an active outreach program designed to broaden and expand the visibility of, and to provide public support for, the Arboretum locally, nationally, and internationally, as well as to increase the Arboretums visitor base. For example, FONA hosts numerous public programs such as forest bathing, yoga classes, family programs, and community events. FONA also partners with other Arboretum stakeholders, interest groups, and community organizations for the betterment of the Arboretum. FONA staff and board members continually reach out to the media, government officials, community leaders, and industry associations, and maintain ongoing relationships with these and other key decision-makers and influential organizations and citizens. FONA also maintains an active public presence via its website and through social media such as Facebook and Instagram. In addition, FONA runs a membership program to recruit and serve 1,000+ members and supporters each year with member events and activities, volunteer opportunities, and weekly enewsletter with updates on Arboretum News, and other member benefits.

  Expenses $58,817

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,080,993

  Expenses

  $2,938,067

  Contributions

  $2,493,300

  Grants paid

  $123,949

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,805,135

  Expenses

  $2,453,192

  Contributions

  $2,261,976

  Grants paid

  $103,610

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,177,583

  Expenses

  $2,122,670

  Contributions

  $1,898,227

  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

  $2,644,655

  Expenses

  $1,807,807

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,172,863

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,568,120

  Expenses

  $1,425,731

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,406,501

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,599,575

  Expenses

  $1,710,777

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,821,037

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,368,981

  Expenses

  $1,741,707

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,588,144

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,174,158

  Expenses

  $1,291,668

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,227,921

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,225,796

  Expenses

  $1,204,472

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,984,385

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,338,714

  Expenses

  $1,037,469

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,013,546

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,285,002

  Expenses

  $1,252,430

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,857,347

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,032,858

  Expenses

  $1,021,671

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,194,264

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.

Grants made

• US National Arboretum

  $123,949

  2024 · Program Support

• US National Arboretum

  $98,096

  2023 · Program Support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $550,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $62,060

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $56,198

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $50,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $41,583

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

• RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

  $25,375

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

  $25,375

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY

  $25,000

  2023 · TO FUND THE MISSION AND PURPOSE OF FRIENDS OF NATIONAL ARBORETUM.

• CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY

  $25,000

  2024 · TO FUND THE MISSION AND PURPOSE OF FRIENDS OF NATIONAL ARBORETUM.

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