Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$96,589

Total expenses

$115,117

Contributions and grants received

$94,392

Grants paid

$282

Program service revenue

$0

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$21

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

$0

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$2,563

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

-$387

Other revenue (line 8)

$0

Total assets, end of year

$45,938

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$45,938

Program service expenses (Part III)

$102,462

Program services were 89.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Establishing a public arboretum in the city of Detroit is an ongoing process as we purchase parcels from the Detroit Land Bank each year, adding to the winding park that is the Arboretum Detroit grounds. This year we purchased three vacant parcels, while continuing clean up and planting/development activities on parcels purchased in previous years. This includes planting 180 trees and shrubs, removing 30 yards of trash and 20 tons of asphalt rubble, installing 1 acre of native wildflower meadow and 33 boulders, creating 250 feet of ADA accessible crushed limestone paths and 400 feet of wood chip walking paths, installing three benches, and a community fire pit and gathering area.

  Expenses $56,419 · Grants $56,419

• Maintaining the arboretum requires ongoing work. This year we kept 28 parcels free of garbage, mowed and weeded. We watered 300 trees and 300 saplings and several native flower gardens throughout the season. We repaired the Nursery mural damaged by last year's severe weather.

  Expenses $32,470 · Grants $32,470

• Our mission to educate and engage the community is fulfilled through educational programming, our Win Win Tree Program, educational signage, and Volunteer engagement opportunities. This year we provided learning opportunities to over 100 neighbors and visitors with free inclusive nature based workshops and events such as birding, herbal medicine, mycology, figure drawing, film screening, music jams, and school visits. Our Win Win Tree Program offers an experience in reciprocity to Detroiters by inviting participants to help care for the Neighborhood Tree Nursery in exchange for free trees to plant at home. Our spring and fall workdays put 300 new saplings and 300 flower bulbs in the ground, and gave away 100 trees to participants with instructions in tree planting and care. We installed 10 educational signs at Circle Forest, offering insight into the importance of trees in our lives. Volunteering is about learning new skills and information, physical activity outdoors to increase well being, social interaction with a targeted focus, and cultivating a feeling of positive contribution to our collective well being by fostering public green spaces. We made this opportunity available to over 400 people this year, who contributed over 1200 hours of volunteer time to support the work of our organization, in all three areas of Park Establishment, Park Maintenance, and Education.

  Expenses $13,573 · Grants $13,573

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2023

Filed

2 April 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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