Bonsai Foundation of the Central Valley

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
993692899
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fresno, CA, USA
Phone
5599030544
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$170,900
Expenses
$93,966
Assets
$206,397
Liabilities
$19,248

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Richard Marc Stamper (President)

People named in this filing

  • Richard Marc Stamper (President)
  • Dwayne Berrett (Secretary)
  • Brian Brandley (Treasureer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Bonsai Foundation of the Central Valley is created to educate and promote, Japanese art & culture. The Bonsai Foundation of the Central Valley provides programmatc, curatorial, horticultural support to the Clark Bonsai Museum as well as other bonsai organizations in the Central Valley.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Bonsai Foundation of the Central Valley promotes and educates the community on Japanese art & culture through the preservation of the Clark Bonsai Collection and the teaching of personal bonsai tree creation through educational classes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 45%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.2; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 91.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 86.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.