The Incredible Edible Community Garden
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270798007
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096087438
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Garden Club, Horticultural Program
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,179
- Expenses
- $68,903
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY E PETIT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARY E PETIT (PRESIDENT)
- ELEANOR A TORRES (CO-EXECUTIVE)
- SUZANNE GRAVES ESQ (SECRETARY)
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 enrich the community by providing plots in a central gathering place for members to plant vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, and enjoy the fruits of our labor. To offer an opportunity for members to "adopt" families in need, shelters, transition homes, homeless people, food banks, etc. To share their crops. To provide the community with sustainable produce in times of natural or man-made disasters, as well as during hard economic times. To foster "green" programs, environmental awareness, healthy organic living, and a sense of community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Iecg continues to maintain an active social media presence with its open public facebook page. Iecg answers questions about gardening, vegetable planting, fruit trees, and other tree plantings and care. Videos are shown that are instructional in various types of planting medium. The healing grove memorial project was started to design and plant a grove of trees for each of the families who lost a loved one in the san bernardino terrorist attack in december 2015. Iecg provides care and maintenance of the groves that have been planted in each of the cities and continues this care and maintenance with donations from the organization, the families who lost those loved ones, and public donations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5,744.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.