Kansas · Nonprofit
BOTANICA INC
BOTANICA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,796,573 to it, the largest being PARRIOTT RBT & MARTHA CRUT ($1,355,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Botanica Inc does
Mission
Botanica, the wichita gardens provides a place of unique beauty that delights a diversity of visitors, generates enthusiasm for horticulture and enlightens people through education, artistic and cultural experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Botanical gardenbotanica has established and maintains themed botanical gardens for the benefit of the public. Our seventeen plus acres feature more than 4,000 species of plants both native and new to the region. All 35 of our current themed gardens are designed to emphasize collections in display settings (I.e. Butterfly garden, sensory garden, wildflower meadow, woodland bird garden, chinese garden,etc) to educate and inspire the visitor. The gardens are decorated with a collection of elegant sculptures, flowing streams, fountains, and waterfalls that complement the beauty of plants and that create a visually stunning atmosphere. In addition, seasonal displays, such as the tulip display, butterfly house, summer annual display, chrysanthemum display and pansy house, interchange to add enjoyment, excitement and year-round interest.
$3,817,952 spent$2,338,556 earned by the program91% of program spendingEducationthe diversity of the garden display areas provides a rich horticultural and visual learning environment for all visitors. This diversity allows for a consistent growth in the number and variety of youth and continuing education opportunities offered to the community. Educational programs include classes, lectures and workshops on horticultural and conservation related topics are presented on site and provided through outreach programs in which botanica provides horticulture information to students, volunteers and other audiences of all ages. The development of the new one acre downing children?s garden will enhance the educational programs and capacity to accommodate five times the current enrollment program. This also includes the maintenance of the frank good library, the largest single repository of horticultural and general gardening information in south-central kansas. The collection consists of over 4000 books, periodicals, catalogs, slides, and videotapes on materials that echo botanica?s garden areas and interests.
$185,675 spent4% of program spendingMembershipsupport from membership helps us to maintain botanica as one of the midwest's leading botanical gardens and allows us to further our mission. Membership services fulfills the benefits of annual membership, provides information about the floral displays, activities/events and programs at the gardens through newsletters, e-newsletters and print pieces to the membership base and provides activities promoting continued involvement and interest in the organization.
$185,675 spent$396,279 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,189,302.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $17M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 6% · 2020 17% · 2021 4% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of BOTANICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lynette A Zimmerman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $210k → $522k.
9 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BOTANICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BOTANICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BOTANICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BOTANICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of BOTANICA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BOTANICA INC's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOTANICA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOTANICA INC?
- BOTANICA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,796,573 to it, the largest being PARRIOTT RBT & MARTHA CRUT ($1,355,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOTANICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,796,573 in grants to BOTANICA INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOTANICA INC?
- PARRIOTT RBT & MARTHA CRUT is the largest funder on record, with $1,355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOTANICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing