Master Gardener Foundation of Chelan -Douglas Counties
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911960335
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Wenatchee, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5098853261
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,497
- Expenses
- $43,199
- Assets
- $85,651
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Jensen (President)
- Shelly Miline (Vice President)
- Dana Cook (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Karen Jensen (President)
- Shelly Miline (Vice President)
- Jill Roberson (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
The Master Gardener Foundation of Chelan-Douglas Counties is organized exclusively for charitable support of scientific and educational purposes, without the inclusion of any purpose or intention of carrying on any business, trade, avocation or profession for profit. In partnership with Washington State University Extension, MGFCD provides financial support to provide unbiased, research-based, WSU-approved information about non-commercial horticultural primarily to the citizens of Chelan and Douglas Counties, emphasizing sustainable gardening practices and environmental stewardship.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education: WSU Chelan Douglas Master Gardeners promote sustainable gardening through maintaining its demonstration gardens and classes offering a variety of settings. Nearly every class is open to the public free of charge. Master Gardeners also conduct weekly Plant Clinics, giving home gardeners an opportunity to speak one-on-one with a Master Gardener to address their specific gardening issues/problems. Our volunteers are also present at a variety of community events and fairs to answer gardening questions. The number of people who visited our in-person clinics and community booth events totaled 825 during 2025. All told, MG volunteers put in 1,640 hours towards providing education to home gardeners in Chelan and Douglas counties during 2025. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the value of one hour of volunteer time at $34.79. Using that hourly figure, the work that WSU MGCD volunteers put towards proving education to the public is valued at $57,055.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 47.6%; rating input score 48
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 65; 65th 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: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 47.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.