Hillsborough Garden Club

Analysis

Hillsborough Garden Club is a registered charity in United States, based in Burlingame, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Hillsborough Garden Club reported income of $91k and spending of $80k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $64k to $91k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Hillsborough Garden Club sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Flathead Rivers Alliance ($91k), The Sugar Lake Association ($91k) and Wyncote Audubon Society ($91k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 27% of the total. At year end it held assets of $212k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $212k.