Botanical Dimensions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680070989
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2014
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Occidental, CA, USA
Phone
7078741531
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,489
Expenses
$35,814
Assets
$25,588
Liabilities
$15,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHLEEN HARRISON (President)

People named in this filing

  • KATHLEEN HARRISON (President)
  • ANDREW JANJIGIAN (Director)
  • SUSAN LEOPOLD (Director)

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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Botanical dimension's primary mission is to collect, protect, propagate and understand plants of ethno-medical significance and their lore. There are four categories of study or sub-disciplines included in their mission:1) ethnography 2) ethnobotany3) ethnomycology4) environmental restoration and preservation

What it reported doing in 2014

Hawaii ethnobotanical forest garden. Since 1985, maintain living collection of tropical healing plants from various cultures, which are planted on trails in native hawaiian forest. Limit invasive plant and animal species to protect native hawaiian species. Teach ethnobotany at this site. Maintain database of native and introduced species.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -66.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -41.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2009 to 2014
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.