Garden Club of Houston

Analysis

Garden Club of Houston is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1982, 44 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 May 2023, Garden Club of Houston reported income of $625k and spending of $644k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income grew from $440k to $625k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2020, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Garden Club of Houston sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 78th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Network of Abortion Funds ($624k), Urban Forest Carbon Registry ($625k) and Friends of Eagle River Nature Center Inc ($624k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 30% of the total. At year end it held assets of $839k against liabilities of $6,500, net assets of $833k.