Peckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760567365
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Hempstead, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9798263232
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $614,837
- Expenses
- $610,780
- Assets
- $2,810,268
- Liabilities
- $93,259
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark McKinnon (President)
- Tom McCasland (Vice President)
- Randy Twaddle (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Randy Twaddle (Executive Director): $96,480 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Peckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation dba John Fairey Garden was established to preserve existing collections, support continued plant explorations and trials, and develop, maintain and preserve the land and facilities of John Fairey Gardens.
What it reported doing in 2024
French Gardens Tour - See Schedule ODuring the tax year, John Fairey Garden planned a tour of French gardens in Paris and the Loire Valley scheduled for early summer 2025. The purpose of the tour is to give supporters of John Fairey Garden an opportunity to see other gardens, both private and public, traditional and non-traditional, in an effort to provide horticultural and aesthetic context to John Fairey Garden. Specifically, tour participants will have an opportunity to visit Le Prieure de Vauboin, a private garden owned and designed by Thierry Juge, known for Juge's whimsical approach to topiary and gardening in general. Tour participants will also have an opportunity to visit another private garden designed by Nick Tomlin, an American garden designer living in France. This particular garden is a dry garden that requires very little maintenance. John Fairey Garden is known for its dry gardens, and this tour will provide an educational opportunity for participants to see the range of possibilities for dry gardens.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.2% of revenue deployed · 68.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $421K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.