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BOUNTIFUL CITIES PROJECT

EIN 05-0587434 ASHEVILLE, NC

Largest nonprofits in North Carolina

Revenue 2024
$529,623
Expenses 2024
$393,662

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C42
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 898

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

Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share and support agriculture resources and skills centered in equity, inclusion and economic viability. Bountiful Cities works collaboratively investing in re-development of local food systems and envisioning abundant and food sovereign communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share agriculture resources and skills to promote social justice and economic viability. We envision abundant and food sovereign communities.

  • FEAST (K-8) public school program reaches 1,600 students each year in Buncombe and Madison Counties, teaching essential gardening and cooking skills. At our partner schools-where an average of 66% of students qualify for free or reduced- price lunch-we manage school gardens that function as both educational spaces and vital food hubs. These gardens serve historically marginalized communities that often lack accessible sources of fresh produce within walking distance. The FEAST program held over 600 hands-on cooking and gardening classes for students, facilitated more than 200 hours of volunteer work, and maintained five thriving school gardens. We organized 48 Garden and Gather workdays, hosted seven successful plant sale fundraisers, and distributed over 2,000 plants to community gardens and schools. In total, we helped distribute more than 10,000 pounds of fresh, locally grown food to individuals and families across our service area.

    Expenses $322,322 · Revenue $101,661

  • Community Garden Network (CGN) brings together over 30 food-producing gardens throughout the region to increase fresh food access, wellness, and community connection. Community Garden Network remained a vital hub of education and resource-sharing. We offered 10 free public workshops, drawing over 400 participants and covering topics ranging from Cooking With the Seasons to Invasive Pest Management. We continued to maintain and share community seed libraries and a tool library to support gardeners across the region. . By sharing tools, land, labor, and seeds-and offering monthly free educational workshops on topics identified by our garden partners-we help entire neighborhoods. Today, these community gardens produce thousands of pounds of food and are spaces for connection, fresh food access, business incubation, and civic engagement.

  • Pearson Garden Food Hub: We provide technical assistance to the gardens, as well as food-producing plants from our model Food Hub at Pearson Garden. At Pearson Garden, we have engaged hundreds of volunteers and offered training to thousands of community members to build and showcase systems such as rainwater catchment, composting, greenhouse and nursery plant production, sustainable cob buildings, terrace gardening, hugelkultur beds, and CoolBot walk-in cooler technology. In addition to growing a diverse array of fruits, vegetables, and herbs onsite, we distribute this fresh produce to our public-school partners, community partners, and neighborhoods in need, helping to directly support food access across the community.

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.

  • Darcel Eddins

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $34,320
    From this org
    $34,320
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Sekou Coleman

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $4,408
    From this org
    $4,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lauren Rayburn

    Co-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Katie Cox

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vanessa Chardos

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brandee Boggs

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Lucy Philips

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Fred Dulin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $529,623
    Expenses
    $393,662
    Contributions
    $418,886
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $492,164
    Expenses
    $530,461
    Contributions
    $453,501
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $589,294
    Expenses
    $659,179
    Contributions
    $509,623
    Grants paid
    $29,679

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
    $452,284
    Expenses
    $416,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $888,465

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $393,140
    Expenses
    $272,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $912,352

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,133
    Expenses
    $441,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $736,809

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,165
    Expenses
    $306,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,919

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $300,201
    Expenses
    $306,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,581

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $218,092
    Expenses
    $199,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,608

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $169,934
    Expenses
    $149,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,795

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $156,096
    Expenses
    $116,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,033

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $69,557
    Expenses
    $65,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,109

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 2012

Tax period
1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
Darcel Eddins
Mailing address
PO Box 898Asheville NC 28802
Website
www.bountifulcities.org
Doing business as
Bountiful Cities

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

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Grants received

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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.