Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

1) from january 31st february 2nd, 2025 the antiques and garden show of nashville celebrated its 35th year at the music city center. The show has been held there since it opened in 2013 and proved to be another successful year. Many previous dealers returned along with new ones to bring a fresh perspective to the audience. The show opened on thursday evening with the traditional benefactor's reception from 5:30 to 6:30 where 400+ benefactors and vip guests celebrated the kickoff of the show. The preview party followed from 6:30 to 9:30pm where over 1,800 guests enjoyed heavy hors d'oeuvres and a great preview of all the vendor booths and spectacular gardens. The show opened on friday morning and continued through sunday afternoon. Attendance was estimated to be approximately 17,000 which was considered successful. Tickets were purchased from a variety of states with the majority being in the southeast region. We continued to streamline expenses wherever possible utilizing volunteers, securing in-kind donations and targeting marketing through increased social media exposure. 2) the antiques and garden show was honored to present a stellar lineup of lecture guests once again for the 2025 show. Celebrating the 35th year, the chairmen were delighted for brooke shields and david flint wood, moderated by india hicks to be the featured keynote lecture on friday morning. The keynote lecture had great attendance of 1421 people. The chairmen invited bunny williams and elizabeth lawrence to serve as honorary chairman. Sheryl crow, lauren akins, and april tomlin moderated by kelleigh bannen made up the friday afternoon lecture, which had excellent attendance of over 1500 people. The saturday morning lecture consisted of florists, shane connolly and willow crossley, moderated by margo shaw. The afternoon was a design panel featuring rita konig and veere grenney, moderated by dara capanigro. There were book signings following both lectures. Both saturday lectures sold over 1,400 tickets. The keynote event was sponsored by milieu magazine. 3) the bourbon party was hosted on friday evening, targeting a young 25-40-year-old crowd. We partnered with brown-forman and hosted the event in the center garden on the show floor. A new audience of guests were introduced to the antiques market, educated about design and lifestyle entertaining while enjoying southern food and bourbon tastings. They were also able to shop the show floor before and during the party and exposed to extraordinary gardens and landscape architect professionals who elevated the bar regarding educating the audience on appreciation of gardens. The bourbon party sold 972 total tickets.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $34.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings