Master Gardener Foundation of Benton-franklin County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
020777791
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Kennewick, WA, USA
Phone
5038034620
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,707
Expenses
$17,584
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYNTHIA BOUNDS (President)
  • SUSAN INROW-ROMINE (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CYNTHIA BOUNDS (President)
  • SUSAN INROW-ROMINE (Vice President)
  • PAM LOA (Secretary)

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

Organization operates to raise funds that are used to supplement and enhance efforts of Washington state university (wsu) extension master gardener program, thereby providing education to wsu master gardener volunteers and the public on the benefits of gardening. Facilitate an exchange of ideas and information between individual chapters, affiliate organizations, and the state foundation through periodic newsletters, seminars, training, horticulture education classes for all ages of residents of benton and franklin counties of Washington about the value of master gardener program.

What it reported doing in 2025

Food gardening program helps prepare and educate people to grow food in community gardens as well as planting extra food t donate to food banks. Seed starting classed and container gardening workshops are held in the spring. Educate and provide supplies for container gardening for those in need. The benton and franklin countes juvenile justice center is also supported with education classes and gardening beds. Over 500 persons benefits last year from the program.

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: 10
  • Growth: 0

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: -162.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th 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 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.