St Georges Garden Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522057946
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Brooklandville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4342585335
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,028
- Expenses
- $190,938
- Assets
- $66,445
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lucy Chittenden (President)
- Gay Legg (First Vice President)
- Sana Brooks (Second Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lucy Chittenden (President)
- Gay Legg (First Vice President)
- Sana Brooks (Second Vice President)
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
Founded in 1927, the purpose of St. George's Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and appreciation of horticulture and conservation through workshops, educational programs, and other civic activities for members and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Garden Club of America: St. George's donated $150,000 to the General Medal Fund of the Garden Club of America (GCA) to establish the Ellen Harvey Kelly Medal in memory of Ellen Harvey Kelly. The Ellen Harvey Kelly Medal may be awarded to members or non-members and may be bestowed for exceptional advocacy in support of any cause related to the purpose of GCA. The GCA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and each year awards up to ten national medals to nationally or internationally recognized leaders in their fields of study or achievement. The recipients represent a variety of talents and achievements. In 2025, for example, they included an environmental attorney committed to preserving open space; a floral designer who has inspired civic pride and built community through his artistry; and a former chemicals/materials executive who has promoted global innovation in support of healthy oceans and a sustainable blue economy. The inaugural Ellen Harvey Kelly Medal was awarded to The Nature Conservancy (TNC). TNC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has worked for over seven decades to conserve land and water through collaborative and bipartisan efforts. TNC impacts conservation in over 80 countries and territories. It has protected over 125 million acres of land and 5,000 river miles and operates more than 100 marine conservation projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
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: -29%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 170.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -48.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.