Garden Joy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822015610
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Ripon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2095568308
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,890
- Expenses
- $84,784
- Assets
- $108,151
- Liabilities
- $139
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LACEE KING (President)
People named in this filing
- HEATHER CROOKER (Director)
- LACEE KING (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
We believe that by developing a peaceful and nurturing space where individuals, families, and groups may grow nutritious organic fruits and vegetables for their community at large, we are also growing joy.We believe in improving nutritional awareness and promoting healthy eating habits by encouraging home gardening, and offering educational programs to provide positive social interaction and recreation.We believe in nurturing curiosity and providing hands-on learning opportunities for children by providing gardening space for use by youth programs and schools.We believe in promoting the health and well being of all participants to provide accessible space for enriching programs and events to encourage physical strength and mental balance.We believe in building a beautiful sanctuary where people of all ages and backgrounds commune and interact in a lively pursuit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Served local food banks, held classes for children and provided a peaceful and nurturing space for all.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 54; 54th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.