Friends of Fred Heutte Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510255163
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7577241323
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,840
- Expenses
- $55,930
- Assets
- $126,819
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Monica Shephard (President)
People named in this filing
- Monica Shephard (President)
- Scott Shephard (Secretary/Treasurer)
- Mary Jo Rothgery (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide horticultural education in memory of Fred Heutte & to continue Fred Heutte's wish to enrich our community by sharing his ideals of urban beautification through horticultural education and the maintenance of our memorial building and display gardens, and through our lectures, workshops and programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024 the Foundation in partnership with Virginia Cooperative Extension/Norfolk Master Gardeners continued the overhaul of the Garden's primary public facing native plant and pollinator bed. Considerable volunteer manpower was required to eradicate invasive plants and restore the biome to support more appropriate plants. In addition, the Square Foot Garden Demonstration Garden supplied 1,825 pounds of fresh produce to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia. During the spring of 2024 our annual plant sale and craft show provided a venue to engage with hundreds of members of the public with horticultural education. In January, we held a public celebration to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Fred Heutte's birth highlighted by attendance by Norfolk's mayor and a mayoral proclamation thus bringing attention to the work of Fred Heutte and the Friends of Fred Heutte Foundation. In all, more than 55 Master Gardeners and community volunteers worked more than 1,743 hours in the Fred Heutte Garden.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.9%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 46
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: 23.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.9% of revenue deployed · 46.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.