Asheville Botanical Garden Inc

Analysis

Asheville Botanical Garden Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Asheville, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Asheville Botanical Garden Inc reported income of $444k and spending of $302k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $201k to $444k (+121%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 249%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Asheville Botanical Garden Inc sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Purgatoire Watershed Partnership Inc ($444k), Friends of the Organ Mountains- Desert Peaks ($444k) and Hanalei Watershed Hui ($444k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 4.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $136k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 5 employees.