Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$257,152

Total expenses

$193,392

Contributions and grants received

$156,889

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$100,263

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$99,535

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$99,535

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$178,881

Management and general expenses

$7,735

Fundraising expenses

$6,776

Program service expenses (Part III)

$178,881

Program services were 92.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• In 2011, Garden Time's Co-founders worked with inmates at the men's maximum-security facility at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions to build a garden in an empty section of prison yard. Since then, we have added two more gardens at other facilities within the prison complex, and trained some 300 incarcerated men and women to become skilled gardeners. While producing thousands of pounds of produce for use in the prison kitchens, our participants have also gained self-confidence, a positive outlook, and a completely new connection to nature. In 2017 we expanded our work to include more explicit job preparation. The Garden Time to Work pre-employment program at the men's medium-security facility offers important life skills and job training for the green industry with reentry planning and support. In 2022 we ran in-prison programming for approx. 30 incarcerated gardeners.

  Expenses $53,664 · Revenue $30,079

• In 2021, after ten years of teaching garden programs at the ACI and to extend opportunities for released students, Garden Time created the Green Reentry Job Training program, an 8-week green industry job training focused on tree stewardship, work readiness and environmental justice for formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders. Through our partnership with Providence Neighborhood Planting Program and Groundwork Rhode Island, trainees plant trees and gain valuable employment experience. We focus on trees because in the green industries, tree service tends to offer year-round work and a living wage. Also, tree equity is a relatable environmental justice concept for trainees who tend to live in lower-income, lower canopy neighborhoods. Finally, planting and maintaining trees is consistent with many formerly incarcerated individuals' desires to, as one student put it "give back and help in the positive development of the same communities I helped to destroy." In 2022, The Green Reentry Job Training program had 11 graduates

  Expenses $107,329 · Revenue $60,158

• As an extension of reentry support, Garden Time employs training graduates to be part of a tree care crew for young trees in the Silver Lake neighborhood that were planted during the training as well as those PNPP has designated as needing maintenance. They assist with watering, pruning and installing tree pit protection where they may be more vulnerable to vehicle damage. This young tree maintenance is critical to build and maintain the tree canopy to ensuring that the neighborhood experiences all the benefits urban trees provide. Being part of the tree maintenance crew provides seasonal part-time employment for Green Reentry trainees--all formerly incarcerated, predominantly people of color--as they search for permanent employment. In 2022, three training graduates participated in the tree maintenance crew.

  Expenses $17,888 · Revenue $10,026

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

30 June 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202321819349300547

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