Annual Report 2017–2018
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ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 MISSION STATEMENT BOARD OF The Arboretum Foundation promotes, protects, and enhances the Washington Park DIRECTORS Arboretum for current and future generations Sherrey Luetjen by strengthening and building a diverse and President engaged community of donors, volunteers, Jason Morse Carolyn Kitchell Jim Reid Paul ‘Skip’ Vonckx Jenny Wyatt and advocates. Vice President Vice President Vice President Vice President Vice President Jeanne Peterson Trina Wherry VISION STATEMENT Secretary Treasurer The Arboretum is a highly treasured, widely Diane Adachi Jan Kirkwood Waszak Anne Phelps used community asset and a horticultural, Joan Affleck-Smith Jeff Lehman Marylyn ‘Missy’ Ward environmental, recreational, and cultural Steve Alley Noriko Palmer Roger Williams resource for the region. Carol Hoerster Chris Pendl EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS ABOUT THE FOUNDATION Fred Hoyt Interim Director, UW Botanic Gardens Founded in 1935, the non-profit Arboretum Jane Stonecipher Foundation raises funds and manages Interim Executive Director, Arboretum Foundation membership and volunteer programs to Christopher Williams promote, protect, and enhance the Interim Superintendent, Seattle Parks and Recreation Washington Park Arboretum. The Foundation provides essential support for Arboretum STAFF operations and activities, including arboriculture, maintenance, education, and Jane Stonecipher Tess Forté Chie Iida collection restoration. In 2016, the Foundation Interim Executive Director Events Manager Events Coordinator/Japanese Garden also assumed the primary support role for the Lee Benner Jessa Gardner Nick Magruder Seattle Japanese Garden. Development Director Japanese Garden Support Manager Development Associate Whit Carter Alyssa Henry Ron Schmaltz VISIT US ONLINE Events and Operations Coordinator Volunteer Programs Manager Garden Stewards Assistant www.arboretumfoundation.org Niall Dunne Randall Hitchin Gary Wortzel Communications Manager Special Projects Manager Director of Finance OPENING THE NEW LOOP AND A NEW CHAPTER What a year we’ve had! The Loop Trail opened to wide acclaim and is attracting old and new friends to explore and appreciate the Arboretum. The new Centennial Garden adds a summer-interest focal point to Azalea Way and features a lovely curved stone bench on which to sit and contemplate the Jenny Wyatt adjacent pond and tree-covered hillside (see pages 8–9). Vice President We had a banner year of fundraising as well—thank you so much to all of our donors who provided critical financial support to the Arboretum in 2017–18! Our Opening Night Party at the 2018 Northwest Flower and Garden Festival (see page 6–7) set new fundraising records while paying tribute to three decades of impact by Duane Kelly and Iain Robertson. Our lovely and fragrant (gold Sherrey Luetjen medal-winning!) Festival display celebrated the Witt Winter Garden, which was the inspiration for the Arboretum’s first display garden 30 years ago. It was also a busy and successful year at the Seattle Japanese Garden (see page 10). As we enter President, our third year as the major support organization for the Garden, we are excited to provide broader Board of Directors community access through increased no-cost public programming, as well as a new membership program that has the potential to significantly augment the support base for this special treasure. In the Japanese Garden and throughout the Arboretum, our dedicated volunteers continue to have enormous impact, contributing in a wide variety of ways (see page 12). We greatly value their efforts and appreciate their dedication to this beautiful public garden. This has also been a year of change, with Paige Miller leaving the Foundation after a decade of service (see page 14). In our roles as Interim Executive Director and Foundation Board Chair, we have had the opportunity to connect with many of the Arboretum’s longtime volunteers and Jane Stonecipher supporters to hear about both the history of, and dreams for, this place that so many hold special. We look forward to making more of these connections in the coming year, and deeply appreciate all the ways that you, the Arboretum community, come together to preserve and enhance this most Interim special treasure. Executive Director 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENT Balance Sheet Revenue & Expenses ArbFest 2017 FY 2017 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2016 Assets Revenue Cash in Bank $ 457,352 $ 231,164 Support & Memberships - Unrestricted Investment Account Funds: Membership & Donors $ 469,875 $ 475,799 General 1,410,217 1,384,785 Events & Gift Shop, net of costs 305,432 287,112 Endowment 2,033,369 1,884,977 Private Grants 119,500 114,000 Promises to Give from Donors 115,150 207,433 Other Revenues & In-Kind donations 166,418 105,677 Other Current Assets 53,501 42,747 Total 1,061,225 982,588 Property, net of depreciation 666 125 Operating Expenses: Total Assets $ 4,069,714 $ 3,751,772 Program services $ 451,157 $ 404,312 Liabilities and Net Assets Grants to UWBG 244,480 298,357 Accounts Payable Fundraising 198,060 158,752 & Accrued Liabilities $ 66,113 $ 116,274 Management & General 173,334 148,211 Grants Payable 120,456 13,655 Total Operating Expenses 1,067,031 1,006,632 Net Assets Net Gain (Loss) on Investments 327,773 (52,558) Unrestricted/Board Restricted 1,733,869 1,567,094 Change in Net Assets - Operating Activities 321,967 (76,602) Temporarily Restricted 764,256 690,254 Permanently Restricted 1,385,020 1,364,495 Permanently & Temporarily Restricted Total Net Assets 3,883,145 3,621,843 Endowment Donations Revenue $ 20,525 $ 39,880 Capital Projects Revenue 130,925 135,000 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 4,069,714 $ 3,751,772 151,450 174,880 Special Grants to Others Project and Fundraising Expenses 212,115 127,497 Change in Net Assets - Non-Operating (60,665) 47,383 Total Change in Net Assets $ 261,302 $ (29,219) Hydrangea quercifolia SNAPSHOTS 2017–18 ArbFest 2017 Centennial Garden Celebration Loop Trail Opening 2018 Opening Night Party Prepping for Plant Sale Earth Day 2018 5 EVENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Foundation members and donors stood tall for trees in 2017–18 by attending our fundraisers, giving generously during our appeals, and renewing their membership commitments to the Arboretum. Your support funds the Arboretum’s maintenance, environmental education, and volunteer progams and helps ensure the future of this beautiful haven in the heart of Seattle! More than 170 guests attended our ArbFest summer party on July 20, 2017. Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the party featured a Renaissance-style feast, specialty drinks, lawn games, and minstrel music, as well as songs and scenes from the play. It was a magical evening, and we raised over $25,000 for the Arboretum in ticket sales and sponsorship. ArbFest will return in 2019, as we alternate between it and the Japanese Garden Summer Party (see page 11) each year. More than 330 shoppers came to Graham Visitors Center on September 9 to buy plants for their gardens and support the Arboretum at our annual FallAbundance sale. It was a fine day, and we had plenty of walk-in shoppers at the event. We sold about $5,000 worth of plants from the Pat Calvert Greenhouse and Plant Donations Nursery, and shoppers also made additional donations to the Arboretum during their visits. Despite wet weather, attendance was good for our annual holiday sale, Gifts & Greens Galore, on December 2. We sold lots of nature-inspired gifts and handcrafted greens, raising more than $12,000 to support the Arboretum. During the sale, UW Botanic Gardens educators hosted a fun series of kids’ activities that included a faux-snowball toss, bird-feeder and snow-globe crafts, finger painting, Planting Time: A family stocks and a reading corner. up on high-quality plants at our FallAbundance sale. More than 350 guests attended our 30th annual Opening Night Party and Auction at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival on February 6, 2018. They 6 GARDEN WINS GOLD helped us raise over $300,000 in support of the Arboretum and The Arboretum display garden at the Seattle Japanese Garden—making 2018 NW Flower & Garden Festival it our most successful fundraiser paid homage to one of the park’s most ever! The theme this year was iconic gardens: the Witt Winter Garden. “Winter Garden Carnavale” Dedicated in 1988, the Winter Garden celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018. and—along with a preview of the Like this garden, our Festival display, Garden Festival displays—guests set against a similar backdrop of lush enjoyed stilt-walking performers and evergreen trees and shrubs, featured a an opera flash mob. Our program wide variety of plants that stir the senses paid tribute to Iain Robertson throughout the winter season. Designed (designer of the Witt Winter Garden Flash Mob: During Opening Night, opera by local plantsman Bob Lilly and designer at the Arboretum) and Duane Kelly singers disguised as waiters performed Phil Wood, in collaboration with architect (founder of the Garden Festival) a surprise rendition of the brindisi from and Foundation board member Roger and how the investments they made Verdi’s La Traviata. Williams, the garden was awarded a Gold decades ago still impact our region in positive ways today. Medal by the festival judges. Despite more drippy weather, turnout was strong for our Early Bloomers Spring Plant Sale on April 14. April showers bring May flowers—and gardeners know this well! We raised $7,000 for the Arboretum, including additional donations made at the register. We received amazing support during our GiveBIG spring appeal in May. A total of 186 donors gave over $35,000 to the Arboretum during the Seattle Foundation’s final GiveBIG event. Most of those donations came through the GiveBIG website on May 9, but we also received a number of mailed gifts in response to our GiveBIG-themed spring appeal letter. 7 LOOP TRAIL AND OTHER MASTER PLAN PROJECTS A year and a half in the making, the new Arboretum Loop Trail opened to the public in November 2017—two months ahead of schedule.