Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens

Analysis

Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens is a registered charity in United States, based in Honolulu, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens reported income of $130k and spending of $158k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $178k to $130k (-27%), an average of -7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bozeman Bike Kitchen ($130k), Energy Efficient West Virginia ($130k) and Walnut Creek Preserve Inc ($130k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 37% and program service revenue 51% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $73k. At year end it held assets of $838k against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $814k. It reported 7 employees.