Totals
- Total revenue
- $182,954
- Total expenses
- $141,160
- Contributions and grants received
- $160,373
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $20,050
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- not reported
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $2,531
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $71,744
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $33,028
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $38,716
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $107,500
Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
Test Plot is a nonprofit organization formed to support community-led land stewardship through the creation and long-term care of experimental native habitat gardens in degraded urban parks. The organization partners with local communities and land managers to restore ecological health build pollinator and wildlife habitat and cultivate lasting connections between people and place. Through monthly workdays paid fellowships and multi-year site commitments Test Plot cultivate a land ethic rooted in community care and ecological stewardship.
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Test Plot designs plants and maintains native plant gardens in underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods transforming neglected or degraded park land into thriving pollinator habitat and community green space. Across 17 plot locations the organization hosted monthly volunteer stewardship days engaged community members in hands-on ecological restoration and coordinated with city agencies and land managers to ensure coordinated land-care efforts. Program activities included invasive species removal native plant installation seed collection and propagation biodiversity monitoring and watershed education. Sites supported native bee butterfly and bird species contributing to regional habitat connectivity. The organization also trained paid youth fellows to build local capacity for ongoing land stewardship. Key outcomes: stewarded 108,000sf of land converting from flashy fuels to native habitat supervised 13,500 volunteer hours trained 90 youth participants in paid workforce positions published 13 log posts.
Expenses $107,500 · Grants $107,500
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jennifer Toy
Board President and Director
- Total calculated
- $57,692
- Compensation
- $57,692
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 32
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Jennifer A Jones
Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Max Kanter
Board Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Alex Robinson
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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
- 2025
- Filed
- 23 June 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202621749349200002
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