Pottawatomie Garden Club of St Charles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030398359
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Saint Charles, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6307888632
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,698
- Expenses
- $49,533
- Assets
- $278,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Constance Unger (President)
- Deborah Schmalholz (Vice President)
- Linda Hefferin (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Constance Unger (President)
- Deborah Schmalholz (Vice President)
- Heidi Dahl (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Pottawatomie Garden Club of St. Charles shall be to cultivate the spirit of gardening in its broadest sense - to beautify home grounds and to encourage community beautification through gardening and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Garden Walk is our biannual fundraiser for the club.It is a one-day event.The primary focus is to raise money for scholarships. We sell ticket books(admission) describing 5-7 local homes featuring gardens/landscapes.The sale price of each ticket book is $25.00.We partner with local businesses to sponsor the event. This corporate sponsorship helps to defray some of the ticket book printing expense. As part of the walk we have a Garden Gate Boutique at the home of one of our members featuring garden items and small plants we have collected for resale.Our members volunteer to staff the entire event.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.7%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.63; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -146.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.7% of revenue deployed · 45.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.