Travis County Master Gardeners Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742730023
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,861
- Expenses
- $29,473
- Assets
- $89,020
- Liabilities
- $10,097
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JoAnna Benko (President)
- Robert Northrup (1st Vice President-Educational Programs)
- Manda Rash (State Council Rep/Past President)
People named in this filing
- JoAnna Benko (President)
- Robert Northrup (1st Vice President-Educational Programs)
- Vicki Blachman (State Council Rep)
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
Support to AgriLife Extension-horticulture education
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual Demostration Garden Open House. Answering questions and facilitating discussions with the public on a variety of topics, such as, rainwater harvesting, composting, herbs, vegetables, and native plants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -232.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.