Boise Urban Garden School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753139866
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2089728630
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,511
- Expenses
- $65,177
- Assets
- $218,655
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stormi Niemann (President)
People named in this filing
- Stormi Niemann (President)
- Craig Dammeier (Director)
- Megan Heryet (Executive Dir.)
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 Boise Urban Garden School is a specialized, inquiry-based education organization that utilizes an organic garden setting as the foundation for our learning environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Off-Site School Environmental Education Lessons: Boise Urban Garden School teaches the fundamentals of environmental education and nutrition through a lens of gardening and culinary arts at local schools. Lessons are available year-round and align with Idaho state standards in a student-centered, experiential way to spark curiosity and kindle stewardship. 5,167 students served through 224 lessons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.6%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.35; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.6% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.