Lafayette Parish Master Gardners Association

Analysis

Lafayette Parish Master Gardners Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Lafayette, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 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 December 2023, Lafayette Parish Master Gardners Association reported income of $72k and spending of $51k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $41k to $72k (+76%), an average of +76% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Lafayette Parish Master Gardners Association sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 27% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Planted Society ($72k), Virginia Green Travel Alliance ($72k) and San Francisco Beekeepers Association ($72k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $157k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $157k.