Pacific Horticulture Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941684498
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108491627
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,230
- Expenses
- $168,298
- Assets
- $34,678
- Liabilities
- $168
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Don Baldocchi (Interim Chair)
- Ann Trump Daniel (Vice Chair)
- Frdrique Lavoipierre (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
Pacific Horticulture provides science-based climate solutions that elevate the role of horticulture to build a resilient future.Pacific Horticulture empowers you to take action in your own garden and community landscape.Our learning offerings address local and regional practices applicable to home and community gardens, developed landscapes and ecological restorations. Programs demonstrate what beautifully designed climate-appropriate gardens and landscapes can be at every scale.Pacific Horticulture welcomes you to our network. Connect with those who are also using the power of gardens to enrich lives and heal the environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pacific Horticulture provides science-based climate solutions that elevate the role of horticulture to build a resilient future. Pacific Horticulture empowers you to take action in your own garden and community landscape. Our learning offerings address local and regional practices applicable to home and community gardens, developed landscapes and ecological restorations. Programs demonstrate what beautifully designed climate-appropriate gardens and landscapes can be at every scale. Pacific Horticulture welcomes you to our network. Connect with those who are also using the power of gardens to enrich lives and heal the environment.
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
- 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
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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -67.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.