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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by BOUNTIFUL CITIES PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$529,623
Total expenses
$393,662
Contributions and grants received
$418,886
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$101,661
Investment income
$80
Other revenue
$8,996
Total assets, end of year
$921,115
Total liabilities, end of year
$11,016
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$910,099
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$322,322
Management and general expenses
$51,142
Fundraising expenses
$20,198
Program service expenses (Part III)
$322,322

Program services were 81.9% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $9,753

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $76,983

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $332,150

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Events and Workshops

    total $101,661 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $80 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $80

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $6,257

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $9,753

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $533

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $5,724 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $5,724

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $1,950

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $1,950 · excluded $1,950

  • 11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous

    total $1,322 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $1,322

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,322

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $34,320 · program services $27,456 · management and general $3,432 · fundraising $3,432

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $149,463 · program services $119,571 · management and general $14,946 · fundraising $14,946

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $16,673 · program services $13,338 · management and general $1,668 · fundraising $1,667

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,316 · program services $0 · management and general $10,316 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,242 · program services $0 · management and general $2,242 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $3,595 · program services $468 · management and general $3,068 · fundraising $59

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $71 · program services $71 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $12,437 · program services $2,831 · management and general $9,606 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $216 · program services $216 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $5,385 · program services $0 · management and general $5,385 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Sponsorship Disbursement

    total $124,655 · program services $124,655 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Food Policy Council

    total $24,520 · program services $24,520 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: FEAST Program

    total $4,236 · program services $4,236 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: Other Program Expenses

    total $4,960 · program services $4,960 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $573 · program services $0 · management and general $479 · fundraising $94

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $163,767 · end of year $308,315

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $612,800

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $612,800 · end of year $612,800

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $2,429 · end of year $11,016

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $750,320 · end of year $735,974

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $23,818 · end of year $174,125

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share and support agriculture resources and skills centered in equity, inclusion and economic viability. Bountiful Cities works collaboratively investing in re-development of local food systems and envisioning abundant and food sovereign communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share agriculture resources and skills to promote social justice and economic viability. We envision abundant and food sovereign communities.

  • FEAST (K-8) public school program reaches 1,600 students each year in Buncombe and Madison Counties, teaching essential gardening and cooking skills. At our partner schools-where an average of 66% of students qualify for free or reduced- price lunch-we manage school gardens that function as both educational spaces and vital food hubs. These gardens serve historically marginalized communities that often lack accessible sources of fresh produce within walking distance. The FEAST program held over 600 hands-on cooking and gardening classes for students, facilitated more than 200 hours of volunteer work, and maintained five thriving school gardens. We organized 48 Garden and Gather workdays, hosted seven successful plant sale fundraisers, and distributed over 2,000 plants to community gardens and schools. In total, we helped distribute more than 10,000 pounds of fresh, locally grown food to individuals and families across our service area.

    Expenses $322,322 · Revenue $101,661

  • Community Garden Network (CGN) brings together over 30 food-producing gardens throughout the region to increase fresh food access, wellness, and community connection. Community Garden Network remained a vital hub of education and resource-sharing. We offered 10 free public workshops, drawing over 400 participants and covering topics ranging from Cooking With the Seasons to Invasive Pest Management. We continued to maintain and share community seed libraries and a tool library to support gardeners across the region. . By sharing tools, land, labor, and seeds-and offering monthly free educational workshops on topics identified by our garden partners-we help entire neighborhoods. Today, these community gardens produce thousands of pounds of food and are spaces for connection, fresh food access, business incubation, and civic engagement.

  • Pearson Garden Food Hub: We provide technical assistance to the gardens, as well as food-producing plants from our model Food Hub at Pearson Garden. At Pearson Garden, we have engaged hundreds of volunteers and offered training to thousands of community members to build and showcase systems such as rainwater catchment, composting, greenhouse and nursery plant production, sustainable cob buildings, terrace gardening, hugelkultur beds, and CoolBot walk-in cooler technology. In addition to growing a diverse array of fruits, vegetables, and herbs onsite, we distribute this fresh produce to our public-school partners, community partners, and neighborhoods in need, helping to directly support food access across the community.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Darcel Eddins

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $34,320
    From this org
    $34,320
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Sekou Coleman

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $4,408
    From this org
    $4,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lauren Rayburn

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Katie Cox

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vanessa Chardos

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brandee Boggs

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lucy Philips

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Fred Dulin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
2024
Filed
15 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202532889349300833

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