- Revenue 2024
- $159,326
- Expenses 2024
- $101,221
Program services were 133.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C50
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- 3853 W POLK 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).
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Our primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational in nature. The North Lawndale Greening Committee provide beautification services to the residents of North Lawndale in Chicago through its care of 21 community garden spaces. We also grow nutrient dense food in 23 urban gardens, including one farm, for the benefit of our residents. Currently, we give away 100 percent of the food we grow to those who need it in our communities. Our Garden to Table program also rescues food from restaurants, grocery stores, and other programs and gives away approximately 240,000 pounds of food a year in our community. We provide soil testing, soil prescriptions, and training for gardener and growers throughout the Chicagoland area. The Good Food Purchasing Program supports our urban agriculture program and our controlled environment agriculture program (a hydroponic farm). This support included supplies for our hydroponic farm, seeds, equipment, infrastructure, and salary support for our employees
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Garden to Table Pipeline
Expenses $60,000 · Grants $74,476
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Nature, Culture, and Human Health - A planning grant for curriculum development for gardening, urban agriculture and participation in nature.
Expenses $4,600 · Grants $4,800
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Good Food Purchasing Initiative
Expenses $70,000 · Grants $80,000
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.
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Ida Harden
Garden to Table Coordinator
- Total calculated
- $13,801
- Compensation
- $13,801
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
-
Shemuel Israel
President and Farm Operator
- Total calculated
- $41,600
- Compensation
- $41,600
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
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Keturah Israel
Assistant Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Mamie Gray
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Doretha Penn
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Kimberly George
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 5
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $159,326
- Expenses
- $101,221
- Contributions
- $159,276
- Grants paid
- $33,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $183,575
- Expenses
- $100,154
- Contributions
- $183,525
- Grants paid
- not reported
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
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Jennifer Matthews
- Mailing address
- 405 S 13TH AVEMaywood IL 60153
- Website
- Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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
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$94,000
2022 CAPACITY BUILDING/GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 Community Fund Awardee Disbursement Year 1
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2025 GFPI Emergency Meal Funding
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.