CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C410

Classification

2000

Street

1000 LAKE COOK RD

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

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• CHICAGOLAND GROWS

  EIN 36-3621163

Mission and programs · 2024

• HORTICULTURAL PROGRAMS - THE GARDEN COMPRISES 385 ACRES, INCLUDING 81 ACRES OF LAKES AND WATERWAYS, A 15 ACRE ILLINOIS PRAIRIE, AND 100 ACRES OF NATIVE WOODLANDS. THERE ARE 28 DISPLAY GARDENS REPRESENTING UNIQUE DESIGNS, SUCH AS THE ENGLISH WALLED GARDEN, THE JAPANESE GARDEN, AND THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE ISLAND. IN 2024, THE PLANT COLLECTION OF THE GARDEN TOTALS 2.73M LIVING PLANTS. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ACTIVE ACCESSIONS (ACCESSION RECORDS) IS 29,543 WITH THE TAXA IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS NUMBERING 14,200. A TOTAL OF 235 FAMILIES ARE REPRESENTED. THE PLANT COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT AT THE GARDEN OVERSEES THE ACQUISITION OF PLANTS AND SEEDS FROM NURSERIES, ARBORETA, BOTANIC GARDENS, PLANT BREEDING PROGRAMS, AND COLLECTING EXPEDITIONS TO MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

  Expenses $19,311,756 · Revenue $2,673,009

• VISITOR SERVICES: 1,300,000 PEOPLE VISITED THE GARDEN IN 2024, FROM THROUGHOUT THE CHICAGO AREA, THE MIDWEST, THE NATION AND THE WORLD. THE GARDEN FEATURES A WIDE VARIETY OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR EVENTS, ACTIVITIES, PROGRAMMING AND EXHIBITIONS. THE GARDEN ALSO HOSTS DOZENS OF FLOWER SHOWS AND SALES, AND IS THE SITE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR VISITORS OF ALL AGES AND WEEKEND FAMILY CLASSES.

  Expenses $15,506,913 · Revenue $1,504,455

• PLANT CONSERVATION - THE GARDEN IS RECOGNIZED AS AN IMPORTANT PLAYER IN INTERNATIONAL PLANT CONSERVATION AND A LEADER IN ORNAMENTAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT. ITS PLANT BREEDING, EVALUATION, AND INTRODUCTION EFFORTS ARE CREATING NEW AND IMPROVED PLANTS FOR MIDWEST GARDENS, AND ITS DIVISION OF PLANT SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION IS WORKING ON THE MOST PRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OF OUR TIME, INCLUDING INVASIVENESS, LOSS OF PLANT SPECIES BIODIVERSITY, AND HABITAT CONSERVATION.

  Expenses $13,759,836 · Revenue $5,498,815

• EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS - THROUGH THE JOSEPH REGENSTEIN, JR. SCHOOL OF THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN AND A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS, THE GARDEN SEEKS TO BECOME THE NATION'S PREEMINENT TEACHING GARDEN, WITH PROGRAMMING FOR STUDENTS OF ALL AGES, INCLUDING CAMP CBG (FOR AGES 2-12), NATURE PRESCHOOL, AND SCIENCE FIRST, WINDY CITY HARVEST YOUTH FARM, AND COLLEGE FIRST (FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS). COLLEGE STUDENTS AND POST-GRADUATES PARTICIPATE IN VARIOUS INTERN PROGRAMS, SOME IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AREA UNIVERSITIES. FINALLY, HUNDREDS OF CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA, AND ELEVEN PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE JOSEPH REGENSTEIN, JR. SCHOOL. EACH YEAR APPROXIMATELY 150,000 ARE REACHED THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $9,170,768 · Revenue $3,427,538

• OTHER

  Expenses $1,607,731 · Revenue $122,831

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $68,147,549

  Expenses

  $73,382,562

  Contributions

  $39,376,498

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $76,930,745

  Expenses

  $69,918,513

  Contributions

  $54,322,264

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $77,057,735

  Expenses

  $60,660,427

  Contributions

  $34,829,423

  Grants paid

  $120,000

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

• 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

  $72,376,611

  Expenses

  $53,561,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $333,124,052

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $53,583,619

  Expenses

  $46,241,769

  Assets (EOY)

  $311,583,095

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $88,318,689

  Expenses

  $48,907,247

  Assets (EOY)

  $289,912,332

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $49,317,007

  Expenses

  $47,979,832

  Assets (EOY)

  $249,029,271

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $49,757,988

  Expenses

  $48,755,048

  Assets (EOY)

  $252,541,559

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

• VOTE YES FOR CLEAN AIR CLEAN WATER AND WILDLIFE NFP

  $120,000

  2022 · CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORT BALLOT INITIATIVE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $3,093,050

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $2,786,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $2,203,050

  2023 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $668,027

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $663,928

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $501,618

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION

  $412,000

  2023 · VETERAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT CANTIGNY AND THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $314,295

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $296,238

  2022 · support for projects in the Lawndale Area, including the Farm in the City, General Operating Support, support for matching contribution challenge, support for science programs that inform and accelerate conservation efforts, support for Windy City Harvest, unrestricted annual support, Annual Fund, Annual Fund contribution, support for Lightscape 2023 (no tickets or tangible benefits), Windy City Harvest

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $277,666

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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.

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