Chatham Garden Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300670206
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chatham, MA, USA
Phone
2158805340
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Garden Club, Horticultural Program

Reported finances

Revenue
$30,511
Expenses
$24,840
Assets
$68,507
Liabilities
$53

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kathryn Curtis (President)
  • Suzanne Feeney (First Vice President)
  • Donna DeBoer (Second Vice President)
  • Gretchen Sloan (Second Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Kathryn Curtis (President)
  • Jacqueline Crimins (Treasurer)
  • Suzanne Feeney (First Vice President)

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

Town of Chatham Massachusetts Garden Club

What it reported doing in 2025

To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to aid in the protection of native plants, and to encourage civic beautification and natural resources conservation

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 65% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.