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ASHEVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC

EIN 56-0845050 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2025
$854,041
Expenses 2025
$571,298

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C410
Classification
2800
Street
151 WT WEAVER 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 · 2025

Mission

TO PROMOTE AND SHOWCASE THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY OF PLANTS NATIVE TO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION BY SERVING AS AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE AND URBAN DESTINATION FOR NATURE STUDY AND ENJOYMENT.

  • CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PUBLIC GARDEN DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY OF PLANTS AND HABITATS NATIVE TO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS FOR THE ENJOYMENT, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH OF THE PUBLIC AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES AND FACILITIES, GARDEN RENOVATIONS AND HELENE RECOVERY WERE MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE GARDEN IN 2025. ASHEVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN IS VISITED BY OVER 60,000 PEOPLE PER YEAR WITH NO ADMISSION CHARGE.

    Expenses $303,714 · Revenue $32,196

  • ASHEVILLE BOTANICAL GARDEN INCREASED EDUCATIONAL CLASSES ON NATIVE PLANTS, ECOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS, OFFERED GARDEN TOURS FOR GROUPS, AND PROVIDED CHILDRENS ACTIVITY BOOKLETS TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD.

    Expenses $136,256

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BERNARD ARGHIERE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • DEBORAH BRECK

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • DR DAVID CLARKE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTY FERRIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • BILL JONES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY KAUFFMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CHERIE MORRIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • STEVE NORMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • COLLIN PERRY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIANE PUCKETT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • ELAINE SMYTH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • MATT SPROUSE

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • PHYLLIS STILES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • GWEN WISLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SUZANNE WODEK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $854,041
    Expenses
    $571,298
    Contributions
    $662,180
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $579,160
    Expenses
    $424,701
    Contributions
    $416,736
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $444,421
    Expenses
    $302,229
    Contributions
    $287,241
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $234,827
    Expenses
    $265,947
    Contributions
    $128,296
    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
    $1,013,775
    Expenses
    $150,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,385,566

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $290,436
    Expenses
    $141,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,454,319

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $201,333
    Expenses
    $152,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,250,737

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $212,804
    Expenses
    $150,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,105,436

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $177,908
    Expenses
    $148,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,088,365

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $160,415
    Expenses
    $144,750
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,001,901

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $143,524
    Expenses
    $147,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $958,537

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $148,200
    Expenses
    $141,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $993,781

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $135,285
    Expenses
    $148,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $970,238

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $135,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $923,169

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.