The Garden Club of St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237421573
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3147052411
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,209
- Expenses
- $11,484
- Assets
- $163,622
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANET HORLACHER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CARRIE POLK (CO-PRESIDENT)
- DEDE FRATT (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT - PROGRAMS)
- PEGGY DOZIER (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT - PROGRAMS)
- WENDY WOLFSBERGER (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT - PROGRAMS)
- LAUREN BROWN (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT - INVITATIONS)
People named in this filing
- JANET HORLACHER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CARRIE POLK (CO-PRESIDENT)
- DEDE FRATT (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT - PROGRAMS)
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
Simulate the knowledge and love of gardening
What it reported doing in 2025
Workshops and lectures on gardening, the environment, conservation, and support for various civic projects
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 46.1%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -120.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.25; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 46.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K 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: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.