Garden Study Club of New Orleans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237004754
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Metairie, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5046065485
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,490
- Expenses
- $128,947
- Assets
- $256,321
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COURTNEY LE CLERQ (PRESIDENT)
- Karen Gundlach (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- COURTNEY LE CLERQ (PRESIDENT)
- Karen Gundlach (Vice President)
- Annie Phillips (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The garden study club of new orleans aims to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening through open meetings, conferences, correspondences and publications. The club aims to educate our members and the community in all aspects of horticulture, civic beautification, conservation, flower arranging, and garden history and design. The club aims to restore, improve and protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of conservation , civic improvement and education.
What it reported doing in 2024
SEE SCHEDULE O statement 2 for program service accomplishments
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.5%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.5% of revenue deployed · 27.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.