Green Rows of Waltham Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934346165
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2023
- Location
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7816974604
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,937
- Expenses
- $4,072
- Assets
- $18,518
- 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
- Katharine Randel (President)
- Judith Rottenburg (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Katharine Randel (President)
- Judith Rottenburg (Vice President)
- Russell Pandres (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
To engage in charitable and educational purposes, including, without limitation, such purposes to promote community gardens and organic gardening with the goal of advancing healthy eating, environmental stewardship, and community connection through gardening. To conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes as may be carried out by a corporation organized under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 180 and described in Section (501)(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
What it reported doing in 2025
Green Rows of Waltham, Inc. is an organic garden providing plots on land that has been continually farmed for almost 100 years. Organic gardening continually renews the fertile soil. To further steward this valuable environmental resource GROW, Inc. provides yard waste and trash bags to haul out waste ($29), conserves water use by maintaining the irrigation system and teaching gardeners to water efficiently, uses environmentally friendly pest control systems ($17) and maintains resources such as the communal raspberry plot ($95).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.5%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.55; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 35.5% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.