Northwest Perennial Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770615180
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4256476004
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,411
- Expenses
- $113,061
- Assets
- $397,011
- Liabilities
- $2,353
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERESA KAULFUS (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BULLIVANT (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TERESA KAULFUS (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN BULLIVANT (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN DAGGETT (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The northwest perennial alliance (npa) seeks to advance the culture, study, and availability ofherbaceous plants, as well as promote and encourage gardening through programs and information.
What it reported doing in 2024
The northwest perennial alliance educates, inspires, and connects gardeners of all skill levels to share the art, science, and joy of gardening in the pacific northwest by offering educational events for both members and nonmembers. Our open garden program offers our membership the opportunity to tour other member gardens from april through september every year. 103 npa members opened their gardens to other members hosting 8,865 visits in 2024.npa is also a partner with the bellevue botanical garden society and maintains the npa perennial border at the bellevue botanical garden. This is the largest perennial border in the united states maintained by volunteers. Npa also operates the npa plant stand at the bellevue botanical garden from april through september offering exceptional plants for sale to the public as well as offering three additional plant sales featuring plant growers from the puget sound area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 60% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.3% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.