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GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

EIN 20-3023426 PASADENA, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,402,498
Expenses 2024
$1,101,013

Program services were 86.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 50045

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION PROVIDES IN-DEPTH GARDEN-BASED EDUCATION TO YOUTH AT TITLE I SCHOOLS IN LOS ANGELES, STRENGTHENING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FOOD JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, AND COMMUNITY HEALTH. WE CURRENTLY SERVE EIGHT TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, NOW REACHING OVER 3,000 STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES EACH YEAR.

Activities or mission (Part I)

GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION'S PRIMARY SEED TO TABLE PROGRAM OF GARDEN-BASED EDUCATION SERVED 2,075 STUDENTS WITH 571 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION AT SEVEN TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES BOTH VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON STANDARDS-ALIGNED LESSONS IN GARDENING, ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, NUTRITION, AND COOKING. AS PART OF ITS POST-COVID RESPONSE, GSF ALSO HELD EIGHTEEN FREE SCHOOL-BASED FARMERS MARKETS, SERVING 1,958 INDIVIDUALS. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO PURSUED ITS CAFETERIA TO COMPOST PROGRAM, AND HOSTED VOLUNTEERS AND INTERNS.

  • GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION'S PROGRAMS INCLUDE SEED TO TABLE (COOKING AND GARDENING CLASSES), CAFETERIA TO COMPOST (FOOD WASTE PREVENTION), AND FREE ON-CAMPUS FARMERS MARKETS (FOOD RELIEF). OUR SEED TO TABLE PROGRAM OF GARDEN-BASED EDUCATION SERVED 3,500 STUDENTS WITH 1,740 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION AT NINE TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DURING THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR. THE PROGRAM INCLUDED BOTH COOKING AND GARDENING CLASSES THAT TEACH ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, NUTRITION, AND KITCHEN SKILLS. IN 2024-25, GSF'S CAFETERIA TO COMPOST FOOD WASTE PREVENTION AND FOOD REDISTRIBUTION PROGRAM OPERATED AT 5 SCHOOL SITES, DIVERTING 43,240 POUNDS OF FOOD WASTE FROM LANDFILLS, GENERATING 18,000 POUNDS OF FRESH COMPOST, AND REDISTRIBUTING 23,829 POUNDS OF EDIBLE LEFTOVER LUNCH ITEMS TO SCHOOL FAMILIES. DURING THE 2024-25 SCHOOL YEAR, GSF HOSTED 35 MARKETS ACROSS TWO SCHOOL SITES AND DISTRIBUTED 66,062 POUNDS OF FOOD TO APPROXIMATELY 6,434 FAMILIES. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO HOSTED 1,260 VOLUNTEERS AND 11 INTERNS.

    Expenses $949,695 · Revenue $373,684

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lizzy Porter

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Colette Dill-Lerner

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lydia Fisher

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marissa Quintero

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Justine Kruse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Portnoy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sami Sciacqua

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura Saenz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Dixon

    BOARD FELLOW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lydia Olivier

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Black

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $75,274
    From this org
    $72,548
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,726
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,402,498
    Expenses
    $1,101,013
    Contributions
    $1,028,337
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $805,497
    Expenses
    $693,309
    Contributions
    $529,591
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $545,458
    Expenses
    $433,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $308,852

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $347,272
    Expenses
    $334,329
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,590

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $303,921
    Expenses
    $385,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,219

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $407,316
    Expenses
    $291,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $177,628

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $283,661
    Expenses
    $281,714
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,296

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $162,862
    Expenses
    $201,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,894

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,093
    Expenses
    $304,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,476

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,099
    Expenses
    $323,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,514

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,765
    Expenses
    $355,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,042

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $169,001
    Expenses
    $193,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,892

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.