Garden Club Council of Winston-salemforsyth Count
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 560556281
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Winston Salem, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3366920549
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,129
- Expenses
- $46,403
- Assets
- $351,517
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANCIE BRAY (PRESIDENT)
- MINI BENNETT (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN PEATROSS (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FRANCIE BRAY (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH HOLLAN (RECORDING SECRETARY)
- KRIS RYAN (ASSISTANT TREASURER)
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
Grants to nonprofits for beautification
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants to nonprofit organizations for beautification ofpublic spaces and for educational programs. Direct expensesby the council for city-wide beautification projects
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.58; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -46.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.