Texas Garden Clubs Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237133572
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Friendswood, TX, USA
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,846
Expenses
$43,018
Assets
$313,853

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tonya Richardson (President)
  • Dianne Barron (First VP - Programs and Past President)
  • Lydia Abuisi (Parliamentarian and Past President)

People named in this filing

  • Tonya Richardson (President)
  • Martha Scott (Recording Secretary and Historian)
  • Dianne Barron (First VP - Programs and Past 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of this club shall be: to stimulate interest in gardening; to operate on a non-profit basis solely for benevolent charitable scientific and educational purposes conducive to the well-being of the community and useful to the public; to aid in the protection and conservation of natural resources; to advance the fine art of gardening landscape design and the study of horticulture and floriculture; to promote youth through the involvement and sponsorship of young gardeners; to promote general civic improvement in the Friendswood community reflecting its heritage; to continue interest in a garden center; and finally to restrict the activities of the organization so that it shall not be used or operated for private profit of any member or special group or be used for any other purposes other than those listed.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sponsor and provide a leadership role for the Heritage Jr. Master Gardeners program under the guidance of Galveston County Master Gardeners toward certification by Texas A&M AgriLife as Jr. Master Gardener for up to 12 young gardeners. Provided Master Gardener and other expert speakers for 5 monthly meetings that are held for the membership and general public to learn about gardening horticulture floriculture landscape design conservation of resources and other areas of relevant interest. An average of 50 people attend these meetings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 66% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 12
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.7%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 13

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.3; rating input score 89; 89th 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: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.7% of revenue deployed · 12.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.