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MENDOCINO COAST BOTANICAL GARDENS CORPORATION

EIN 94-2800886 FORT BRAGG, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$3,174,858
Expenses 2024
$2,301,959

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C410
Classification
1000
Street
18220 N HIGHWAY 1

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

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AS A NONPROFIT BOTANICAL GARDEN, OUR MISSION IS TO ENGAGE AND ENRICH LIVES BY DISPLAYING AND CONSERVING PLANTS IN HARMONY WITH OUR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS AND TO PRESERVE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THECOAST

  • GROUNDS: GENERAL ADMISSION FEES TO THE GARDENS REPRESENT MUCH OF THE ANNUAL REVENUE FOR THIS ORGANIZATION. THE GARDENS ALSO HAVE VARIOUS MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN BECOMING MORE INVOLVED WITH THE ORGANIZATION. MEMBERSHIPS ARE FOR AN ANNUAL TERM AND ARE RECORDED ON THE ACCRUAL BASIS OF ACCOUNTING. UNDER THIS METHOD OF ACCOUNTING REVENUE IS RECOGNIZED OVER THE TERM OF THE MEMBERSHIP. THE GARDENS PROVIDES FOR A RETAIL STORE, NURSERY AND CAFE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO VISITORS THE GARDENS ALSO OFFERS MANY PROGRAMS AND SERVICES INCLUDING EVENTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS FREE ACCESS CLASSES TO SCHOOL CHILDREN, SCOOTERS FOR THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED. IT ALSO SPONSORS WORKSHOPS AND MAINTAINS TRAILS.

    Expenses $2,081,341

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.

  • Molly Barker

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $101,593
    From this org
    $101,593
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Liz OHara

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jill Surdzial

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Susan Cimmiyotti

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jeanine Nadel

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Jean Mann

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Howard Pollack

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lisa McCormack

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Barbara Burkey

    MCRPD Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Keith Stiver

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Sandy Scott

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Tracy Barrett

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Tim Gage

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $3,174,858
    Expenses
    $2,301,959
    Contributions
    $1,483,570
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,217,218
    Expenses
    $2,099,137
    Contributions
    $489,129
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,740,245
    Expenses
    $1,813,579
    Contributions
    $184,175
    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
    $2,191,953
    Expenses
    $1,509,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,590,479
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,048,902
    Expenses
    $1,237,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,242,565
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,710,126
    Expenses
    $1,449,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,045,780
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,552,195
    Expenses
    $1,412,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,801,524
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,632,838
    Expenses
    $1,394,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,685,953
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,210,978
    Expenses
    $1,146,048
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,294,380
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,196,332
    Expenses
    $1,176,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,231,266
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,447,663
    Expenses
    $1,344,968
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,256,834

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

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

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.