Louisiana Nursery Landscape Foundation for Scholarship and Research

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270883626
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Mandeville, LA, USA
Phone
9857894301
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,490
Expenses
$57,720
Assets
$241,326
Liabilities
$1

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALLEN OWINGS (Vice President)
  • MICHELE ANDRE (President)

People named in this filing

  • ANNIE COCO (Treasurer)
  • REGINA BRACY (Director)
  • ALLEN OWINGS (Vice 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide scholarships and grants to individuals and research organizations to further horticulture education and knowledge.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided scholarships of $2,500 each to six students attending a Louisiana university to support education in horticulture, provided $24,350 in grant research monies to the lsu ag center,$3,000 for summer intern program at the lsu hammond research station

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

SUPPORTED - 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: 24
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.5%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 27

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.5% of revenue deployed · 26.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 22/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.