Nonprofit · EIN 94-2581329
WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE
Tax-exempt · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $414,257 | $270,179 | $144,078 | $1,695,448 | $43,775 | $1,651,673 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $297,444 | $234,068 | $63,376 | $1,290,085 | $31,179 | $1,258,906 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $380,291
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $33,966
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $6,734
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $138,704
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $144,077
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $13,150
- Occupancy
- $16,103
- Travel
- $9,182
- Program services (functional)
- $269,046
- Management and general (functional)
- $519
- Fundraising (functional)
- $614
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,290,085
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,695,448
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $43,775
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,651,673
- Publicly traded securities
- $1,162,135
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,226,198
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $425,475
- Gross receipts
- $414,257
- Employees
- 2
- Volunteers
- 13
- Year formed
- 1979
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanmin Liu | President Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $42,300 | $31,325 |
| Jennifer Mei | Vice President Officer | 40 | $34,165 | $30,914 |
| Bruce E Spivey | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Arsham | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Joy Ou | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ingrid Mittermaier | Chair/Director Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ramon Murguia | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 8 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanmin Liu | President Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $39,000 | $33,020 |
| Jennifer Mei | Vice President Officer | 40 | $31,500 | $32,421 |
| Anni Chung | Ass't Sect/Dir Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Bruce E Spivey | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Gary Arsham | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Joy Ou | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ingrid Mittermaier | Chair/Director Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Ramon Murguia | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 1144 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133-7250
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Hanmin Liu, 1144 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA 941334212
- Signed the 990
- Jennifer Mei, Vice President
- Phone
- (415) 775-1151
- Website
- www.wildflowers.org
- Return prepared by
- Fontanello Duffield & Otake LLP
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 94-2581329 or by the name WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
Wildflowers Institute is dedicated to advancing the sustainability of populations in the grassroots.
Program accomplishments
- Wildflowers Institute (the institute), a California nonprofit organization, is dedicated to advancing the sustainability of populations in the grassroots.The institute recognizes the contemporary challenges of community building in the United States and beyond. Our work guides and supports both donors and communities toward maintaining time-honored practicesstrong relationships and social formationsto foster stability and to propel transformation. Wildflowers Institute embraces the history, culture, and spiritual practices of others and their diversity of thoughts.The year 2024 was a watershed for the institute. We deconstructed our program services that enable community members to build their own narrative of who they are and how they transform themselves. We refined our processes and tools for making visible local resources and assets. We built from the ground up a way of advancing community sustainability for donors and philanthropists. This donor approach to local philanthropy is rooted in discovering the unseen treasures within the community. DISCOVERINGAt the heart of our approach to discovering a communitys unseen treasures is identifying what the community-at-large sees as its challenges and how individuals, self-organized groups, and organizations are responding to these challenges.Wildflowers Institutes process of discovering empowers communities by enabling them to define their own narrative and find common direction and purpose. This approach fosters alignment and collaboration among residents and local artists as well as among diverse cultural groups and organizations. It encourages community members to take an active role in philanthropy and engage in ongoing discussions about social outcomes, ensuring that lessons are learned and applied for continual improvement. Our five-step discovery process to strengthen individuals, self-organized groups, and organizations coming together has been part of Wildflowers Institutes toolkit for the past twenty years. In each step below, we assess, improve, and refine as a means to discovery.1.Community-driven surveys and focus group sessions to identify salient problems and solutions to them;2.Panels of respected experts to assess projects;3.Community assemblies to explore, discuss, and support new projects;4.Workshops to build 3-D models of community formations and project plans; and5.Gatherings to dialogue, reflect, and evaluate.UNSEEN Our discovery process highlights unseen community assets by looking beyond the surface and identifying key individuals who cultivate inclusive and collaborative relationships and sustainable community dynamics. These previously unseen individuals typically fall into five or six different archetypes for sustainability: guardians, keepers of the culture, spiritual guides, healers, artists, and social and business entrepreneurs. They are deeply motivated by a sense of purpose, a desire to improve their community, and a love for others. By recognizing these individuals and the social outcomes of their endeavors, Our discovery process motivates and influences others more effectively. TREASURESThe unseen treasures we discover are community members who have a deep emotion for and a knowledge of their community that foster a desire for sustainability of their ecosystem as a whole.The treasures are the outcomes of activities generated by the archetypes as noted above. These outcomes are realized by tapping into their inherent strengths, while also drawing upon the communitys rich history and cultural capital. By doing so, the community not only stabilizes and adapts but also propels itself forward, continuing to grow and evolve. Strengthening the collective will in this way cultivates a dynamic, enduring communityone that builds on its past while embracing the possibilities of its future. Democratizing Philanthropy ProjectThe institutes arts and culture project in Chinatown (20212023) uncovered a community-wide treasure centered on unity amid diversity. This ethos, which we refer to as a sacred code, extends far back in ancient Chinese history and guides human behavior across public, private, and nonprofit organizations, families, clans, and individuals. Striving for harmony is expressed in the design of places, in spiritual and cultural rituals, and in daily living, and it informs individuals of all ages in building a sustainable family and community. Inspired by the capability of the sacred code to unify, we are collaborating with eleven monolingual Chinese elders in our philanthropy for all approach in the Tenderloin. They have developed the survey questions to identify the problems in the family and the community. They are conducting the poll to more than a thousand tenants of single-room occupancy hotels in their neighborhood. The goal of the survey is to identify community-driven solutions to their problems. The elders are discovering exemplary approaches that address the problem directly but that also (1) develop personal character, virtues, and relationships within the family; (2) foster harmony in the family and the community; and (3) elevate collective problem-solving and social adaptation in the neighborhood.Building on the concept of discovering unity amid diversity, we partner with the Aspen Institute to host dinner meetings with San Francisco leaders to discuss community-building. We will also jointly organize a three-day seminar in 2026 titled Leadership, Change, and Community: Entrusting the Gift, Extending the Good.Expenses $269,046 · grants $6,734
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 94-2581329
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1979
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,695,448
- Income (IRS master file)
- $414,257
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $414,257 | $270,179 | $1,695,448 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $297,444 | $234,068 | $1,290,085 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $170,784 | $201,721 | $989,010 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2019 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 94-2581329).
Questions about WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE
- What is the EIN of WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE is 94-2581329.
- Is WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1979.
- Are donations to WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Hanmin Liu.
- Who are the officers and directors of WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 7 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $42,300 (Hanmin Liu, President).
- How much revenue does WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $414,257, expenses of $270,179 and total assets of $1,695,448 at year end.
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