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HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN

EIN 04-3695294 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$7,644,996
Expenses 2024
$8,511,110

Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C41
Classification
1000
Street
8205 N BAYOU DR

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).

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.

  • Alberto P Cardenas Jr

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8 + 1 related

  • Melbern G Glasscock

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • Emily Emmett

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Annise D Parker

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nancy O'Connor Abendshein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Carole Bailey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jack Bellows

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Eads

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jessica Essalih

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Katie Grahmann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Saundria Chase Gray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jennifer Patton Grosvenor

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Gail Hendryx

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Phillip Holder

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lynne Hudson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ruthie Lee-Esene

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Steven J Lindley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Blair Richardson Loocke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ryan Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jose Rocha

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • James William Stewart Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Elizabeth Stone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kingslea von Helms

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Bass Wallace

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Joy Warren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $7,644,996
    Expenses
    $8,511,110
    Contributions
    $4,688,525
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,061,631
    Expenses
    $8,785,087
    Contributions
    $3,906,650
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,081,553
    Expenses
    $8,292,721
    Contributions
    $3,545,741
    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
    $5,689,195
    Expenses
    $7,544,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,581,039

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,031,429
    Expenses
    $2,082,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,899,140

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,715,582
    Expenses
    $1,278,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,306,914

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,642,902
    Expenses
    $925,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,421,010

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,923,463
    Expenses
    $624,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,329,814

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $253,846
    Expenses
    $575,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,790,737

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,781,246
    Expenses
    $488,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,172,915

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $95,084
    Expenses
    $399,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $859,922

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,128,039
    Expenses
    $324,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,178,818

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $191,422
    Expenses
    $320,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $361,899

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities 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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.