Shreveport Garden Study Club

Analysis

Shreveport Garden Study Club is a registered charity in United States, based in Shreveport, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 May 2023, Shreveport Garden Study Club reported income of $110k and spending of $158k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from May 2022 to May 2023, income fell from $432k to $110k (-75%), an average of -75% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2023, when income dropped by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 38% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Shreveport Garden Study Club sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bexar County Master Gardeners ($110k), Research Center on Natural Conservation Inc ($110k) and Toledo Bend Lake Association ($110k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $490k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $490k.