The Garden Club of Norfolk
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237200692
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7579274382
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,614
- Expenses
- $91,578
- Assets
- $167,384
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katherine Knauss (President)
- Vanessa Sigmon (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Katherine Knauss (President)
- Vanessa Sigmon (Vice President)
- Jean Mercer (Treasurer & Finance Chair)
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
The purpose of The Garden Club of Norfolk shall be to inspire the knowledge and love of gardening; to celebrate and practice the art of floral design; to support the restoration of historical gardens, to actively conserve and protect our natural environment, and to ensure the preservation of America's beauty and natural heritage for future generations.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Garden Club of Norfolk supports a variety of different projects and organizations in the community. In 2021, the club provided $6,000 to the CHKD Lighting the Way for Mental Health Initiative for a garden at the CHKD Mental Health Hospital, $230.02 to the gardens at Lake Taylor Transitional Home, $153.00 to the beautification of Wisconsin Square, and $100 each to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Elizabeth River Project, Scenic Virginia, and the Virginia Conservation Network. The GCN also donated $2,374.51 of a much larger pledge to The Olmsted Initiative, a club collaboration with the City of Norfolk, Elizabeth River Trail, neighboring communities, and donors to plant native trees and shrubs at the ERT Trailhead in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted believed public parks were important for an individual's health and wellbeing and that public parks were the great social equalizer because they welcome everyone. Olmsted's vision was to design beautiful spaces using the best of what Nature produces to create a place of respite for the human spirit.
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 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 78; 78th 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: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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 57/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.