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FRIENDS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BOTANICAL GARDEN

EIN 77-0248682 SN LUIS OBISP, CA

Revenue 2024
$615,396
Expenses 2024
$677,929

Program services were 58.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C114
Classification
1000
Street
3450 DAIRY CREEK 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO DISPLAY THE DIVERSE PLANT LIFE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE ZONES OF THE WORLD AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION, RECREATION, CONSERVATION AND RESEARCH. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES, THE GARDEN WILL FOSTER AN APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLE AND NATURE AND WILL ENCOURAGE A SENSE OF STEWARDSHIP TOWARD THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

  • EDUCATION PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDING CHILD, YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATIONAL CLASSES AND EVENTS. DOCENT LED TOURS AND ACTIVITIES, LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $322,752 · Revenue $71,426

  • GARDEN OPERATIONS INCLUDING DISPLAY GARDENS OF MEDITERANEAN NATIVE AND ENDANGERED PLANTS, CULTURAL GARDEN OF IMPORTANT INDIGINOUS PLANTS, FIRE SAFE DEMONSTRATION PLANTINGS, NURSERY AND GREENHOUSE, ACCESSIONING AND RELATED RETAIL ACTIVITY.

    Expenses $70,848 · Revenue $60,619

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.

  • PING TSAO

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • BERN SINGSEN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • TAMARA BLETT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KARL COLLINS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RUTA SALAKIS

    DIRECTOR - PART YEAR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • EVE VIGIL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JANINE STILLMAN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $80,514
    From this org
    $76,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,834
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $615,396
    Expenses
    $677,929
    Contributions
    $285,515
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $593,965
    Expenses
    $865,576
    Contributions
    $320,576
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $847,883
    Expenses
    $877,736
    Contributions
    $441,879
    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
    $609,657
    Expenses
    $489,155
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,604,818

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,770
    Expenses
    $356,980
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,531,177

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $232,815
    Expenses
    $355,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,453,581

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $232,275
    Expenses
    $249,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,635,336

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,147
    Expenses
    $235,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,656,064

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,971
    Expenses
    $233,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,701,467

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $146,526
    Expenses
    $228,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,604,697

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $202,073
    Expenses
    $242,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,673,801

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $313,458
    Expenses
    $364,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,707,207

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $507,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,733,621

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