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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by CHICAGOLAND GROWS.

Totals

Total revenue
$212,053
Total expenses
$121,045
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$212,053
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$357,552
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$357,552
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$119,438
Management and general expenses
$1,607
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$119,438

Program services were 98.7% 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.

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Royalties

    total $212,053 · related or exempt $212,053 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $570 · program services $570

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $177 · program services $177

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,451 · management and general $1,451

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $18,317 · program services $18,317

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $156 · management and general $156

  • 17 · Travel

    total $2,049 · program services $2,049

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $7,307 · program services $7,307

  • 24a · Other expenses: Revenue share with partner

    total $91,018 · program services $91,018 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $266,544 · end of year $357,552

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $266,544 · end of year $357,552

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Chicagoland Grows is an innovative plant introduction program that works with industry professionals to develop, select, evaluate, produce and market new recommended plant cultivars.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Chicagoland Grows is an innovative plant introduction program that works with industry professionals to develop, select, evaluate, produce and market new and recommended plant cultivars.

  • Chicago Grows is a collaboration among the Chicago Horticultural Society d/b/a the Chicago Botanic Garden (36-2225482), the Morton Arboretum and the Ornamental Growers Association of Northern Illinois. Chicagoland Grows is an innovative plant introduction program developed to promote the use of new plant cultivars that are well-adapted to the growing conditions of the upper Midwest. Chicagoland Grows works collectively with industry professionals throughout North America to develop, select, evaluate, produce and market new and recommended plant cultivars.

    Expenses $119,438 · Revenue $212,053

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Fredrick Spicer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $309,748
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $299,320
    Other
    $10,428
    Hours/week
    2 + 38 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $278,317 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $21,000 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $10,428 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $309,745 related

  • Kris Bachtell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andy Ward

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
15 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202333189349308028

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