The Garden Club of Nashville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621136678
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6155948007
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,758
- Expenses
- $155,685
- Assets
- $343,454
- Liabilities
- $250
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH LAMAR (PRESIDENT)
- CAPELL SIMMONS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH LAMAR (PRESIDENT)
- CAPELL SIMMONS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NONI NIELSON (TREASURER)
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
To promote interest in gardens, their design, culture and management, and to cooperate in the protection of wild flowers, native plants, trees, birds and in the interest of civic affairs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promotion of gardens and gardening, primarily the howe garden at cheekwood in nashville, tn. Conduct annual wildflower sale.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.