The Wedding Garden Inc
Overview
Mission
See schedule o.
What it reported doing in 2017
Seeking donations of bridal gowns for resale to provide assistance to the brooklyn charter school and the students thereof.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133905448
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.4%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $67.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.36; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.4% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $286K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 5 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.