Orinda Garden Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942725254
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Orinda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9258190483
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,281
- Expenses
- $171,559
- Assets
- $129,738
- Liabilities
- $350
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathy Fernbacher (President)
People named in this filing
- Kathy Fernbacher (President)
- Lisa Kovalik (Secretary)
- Carol Garrett (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 promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge of gardening and the beautification of the Orinda, California community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bring members and the public together to cultivate the bond among people, plants and the environment through educational meetings, garden tours, and conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -87.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.