Garden Play Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873072813
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,260
- Expenses
- $1,925
- Assets
- $12,335
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Lisa Martinez (Principal Officer)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide garden-based educational enrichment in underserved neighborhoods and communities particularly in urban areas with limited access to nature.
What it reported doing in 2022
Provide consulting services to La Mesa Verde Kids Club and Veggielution leadership to support their professional development goals in building stronger outdoor classroom management skills and place-based learning objectives over the course of August 2022 to December 2022.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.8%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 57.6%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 86.5%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.41; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.8% of revenue deployed · 57.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.