Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance

Analysis

Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance reported income of $3.5m and spending of $2.3m, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $3.5m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Puget Sound Restoration Fund ($3.5m), Friends of Camp Colton ($3.5m) and Global Forest Generation Inc ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 0.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $5.2m against liabilities of $132k, net assets of $5.1m. It reported 66 employees.