San Francisco Orchid Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237108479
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4156636035
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,365
- Expenses
- $60,406
- Assets
- $560,764
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Derreck Carter-House (President)
- Peter Chianchiano (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jeffery Mark Harris (Director)
- Alan Yip (Director)
- Geoff Harris (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The aim of San Francisco Orchid Society is to promote, carry on and aid in every possible way the development, improvement and preservation of Orchids of all kinds, including, but not by way of limitations the importation and the improvement by cultivating and hybridization of exotic orchids and the preservation and perpetuation of native orchids to collect information relating to the growing and development of orchids, to disseminate information concerning culture, hybridization or development of orchids by means of exhibitions, lectures, publications, or otherwise to assist those engaged in the growing of orchids by such researches and dissemination and generally to extend the knowledge, production, use and appreciation of orchids of many kind and in any manner. To achieve these goals, the San Francisco Orchids Society holds a monthly meeting at which a lecturer presents an education program. The Society also holds an annual spring show, open to the public, at which lecturers are pre
What it reported doing in 2025
Monthly meeting expenses including speakers, research and program operating expenses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.5%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 46.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.28; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.5% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.