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NEW BRITAIN ROOTS INC

EIN 46-4350118 NEW BRITAIN, CT

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Revenue 2024
$430,322
Expenses 2024
$441,389

Program services were 62.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 853

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

ROOTS is a community-engaged 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to promoting food security and agricultural education in K-12 programs. We make healthy food accessible and affordable to low-income families. We work with Connecticut farmers, food artisans and healthy food advocates. We learn from, work with, and teach with people of all ages. ROOTS provides farmers' market outreach programs, increasing the consumption of healthy and locally grown produce for our low income neighbors and builds school and community gardens in New Britain.

  • Food Security: Operate a mobile farmers market to serve low-income neighborhoods with low access to nutritious food.

    Expenses $23,315 · Revenue $75,571

  • Education: Provide after-school programs for K-12 public school students, support and materials for school gardens, field trips to farms, and workshops and demonstrations at community events. Funded through School Contracts and grants.

    Expenses $254,500 · Revenue $324,185

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Joseph Listro

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $60,115
    From this org
    $60,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Megan Hourigan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Miranda Velez

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yvette Ghannam

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Kowaleski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hanna Petrisko

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nic Tedesco

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Craig Schmitt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stanley Dombrowski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mya Tillman

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $430,322
    Expenses
    $441,389
    Contributions
    $348,161
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $290,839
    Expenses
    $314,710
    Contributions
    $200,742
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $283,336
    Expenses
    $251,385
    Contributions
    $169,960
    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
    $364,568
    Expenses
    $314,844
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,211

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,226
    Expenses
    $196,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,286

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $138,915
    Expenses
    $152,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,767

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $148,486
    Expenses
    $118,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,127

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $90,880
    Expenses
    $88,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,562

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Joseph Listro
Mailing address
PO Box 853New Britain CT 06050
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.