St George Village Botanical Garden of St Croix Inc

Analysis

St George Village Botanical Garden of St Croix Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Frederiksted, VI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1975, 51 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 December 2022, St George Village Botanical Garden of St Croix Inc reported income of $304k and spending of $474k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2022, income fell from $575k to $304k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, St George Village Botanical Garden of St Croix Inc sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within VI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include School Garden Project of Lane County ($303k), Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ($304k) and Michigan Lakes and Streams Association Inc ($303k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 30% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $153k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $155k, net assets of $1.3m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.