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GARDENEERS

EIN 46-4651665 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2023
$2,342,957
Expenses 2023
$2,100,538

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
3250 W ADAMS ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO ENRICH THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF NUTRITION, CONNECT WITH THEIR COMMUNITY, AND BECOME STEWARDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

  • THE ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED SCHOOL GARDEN, AND CONDUCTED GARDEN BASED LESSONS ON A WEEKLY BASIS.THE ORGANIZATION IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN CHICAGO TO IMPLENT YEAR ROUND GARDEN EDUCATIONPROGRAMS

    Expenses $1,945,652

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Selma Sims

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,342,957
    Expenses
    $2,100,538
    Contributions
    $2,076,392
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,466,796
    Expenses
    $1,013,667
    Contributions
    $1,466,796
    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
    $667,996
    Expenses
    $573,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $309,026

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $603,391
    Expenses
    $670,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,018

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $677,020
    Expenses
    $800,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,263

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $614,447
    Expenses
    $590,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $144,504

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $500,765
    Expenses
    $419,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,227

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,612
    Expenses
    $199,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,814

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,651
    Expenses
    $73,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,611

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.

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.