Allyn's Creek Garden Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 166042210
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Honeoye Falls, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5856241410
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,109
- Expenses
- $35,270
- Assets
- $188,490
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chrissy Bennett-West (Vice President (Started 7/2025))
- Mary Clare Hamlin (President)
People named in this filing
- Marie McNabb (Conservation Chair)
- Leslie Huey Editor (Seedlings Newsletter)
- Kate Sturman (Floral Design Chair)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of this club shall be to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening; to aid in the protection of native plants and birds; to encourage civic planting, and to study, in all aspects, the fine art of gardening.
What it reported doing in 2025
Stone-Tolan House and Museum: Since 1959, ACGC has had an annual financial commitment to the landscape and grounds of the Landmark Society's Stone-Tolan House and Museum. In 2025, $6,000 was granted for orchard maintenance. Every Spring, members spend a day maintaining the gardens and grounds. In 2016, inspired by the GCA challenge to attract bees, birds and butterflies, members installed a Pollinator Garden of native and heirloom plants.Green Visions: This community-based program provides work experience for at-risk youth in Rochester's JOSANA neighborhood. Participants plant and cultivate cut flower gardens on once vacant lots. Flowers are harvested and sold at retail locations across the city. Since 2016, ACGC has donated funds annually to cover the cost of employing student participants. Members have also contributed tools and other in-kind items to this project. In 2023, ACGC applied for GCA Common Ground Collaborative Initiative and was awarded $10,000 for Green Visions classroom development at the newly acquired house adjacent to the garden. Genesee Land Trust: Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the greater Rochester region, providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature for everyone. To help cover the costs of habitat restoration, specifically restoring the meadows that grassland birds rely on at the Kaiser-Manitou Beach Banding Station, ACGC donated $1,000 toward the contracting of hydro-axing services. In prior years, ACGC assisted with purchasing a field and brush mower which was instrumental in starting to restore this property.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 75% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.5%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 49.3%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.34; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -37.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.5% of revenue deployed · 49.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.