LOWER NINTH WARD CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOP

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

M20

Classification

1000

Street

5130 CHARTRES 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

• RESTORATION, DECONSTRUCTION, SALVAGE, WEATHERIZATION, AND REBUILDING THE LOWER 9th WARD: Revitalizing the Lower 9h Ward begins with the thousands of homes and businesses damaged by Hurricane Katrina and Ritato ensure they become health, comfortable, energyefficient places to live and work. That communitywide focus extends to making our streets, parks, schools and gathering places safer and more sustainable. The CSED works to create energy independent, economically viable, beautiful and resilient neighborhoods. This includes working towards restoring and developing parks and community gardens. It includes providing returning residents with sustainable building resources and training to restore their homes and other residential type structures via bulk purchasing, low or no cost rebuilding materials, sustainable technologies and materials, and providing volunteer labor from all over the United States. Volunteer labor for the year is valued at $240,983, based on a $22.14/hour labor rate and 10,885 volunteer hours. This amount is not included as revenue or expenditures in this return.

  Expenses $256,237 · Grants $256,237 · Revenue $256,237

• FOOD SECURITY:Food Security is a vital element of a sustainable community. It is a return to the traditions of urban farming and independent living rooted in the Lower 9th Ward. CSED works to promote this initiative through community gardens, local markets and ongoing education and outreach about the importance of urban agriculture to community revitalization. The CSED supports the Backyard Gardners Network to promote food security, the Guerrilla Garden located at Chartres & Charbonnet, and the Ernst Community Garden located at Chartres and Forstall. The CSED Food Planning Community, in response to the communitys poor access to fresh food, is currently organizing Lower 9th Ward community leaders and residents to create a Neighborhood Food Action Plan. Also, the CSED is developing a local Urban Farm that will provide local quality food to residents and New Orleans area restaurants with a community hiring component to include an apprenticeship in farming.

  Expenses $256,237 · Grants $256,237 · Revenue $256,237

• SUSTAINABLE COASTAL RESTORATION: To increase and strengthen collaboration between local and national efforts in order to advance innovative policies and mechanisms forcomprehensive coastal restoration and community protection efforts in coastal Louisiana. The health and well being of the Lower 9th Ward is deeply intertwined with the Mississippi River to the south and the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle to the north. This geographic relationship continues to inform coastal sustainability and the critical role of wetlands throughout New Orleans, across Louisiana, and along the Gulf Coast.

  Expenses $256,238 · Grants $256,237 · Revenue $256,237

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.

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

  $643,976

  Expenses

  $792,143

  Contributions

  $643,976

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $327,481

  Expenses

  $428,820

  Contributions

  $327,481

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $461,933

  Expenses

  $444,503

  Contributions

  $461,933

  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

  $389,345

  Expenses

  $339,985

  Assets (EOY)

  $0

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $339,248

  Expenses

  $295,160

  Assets (EOY)

  $138,660

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $223,384

  Expenses

  $200,839

  Assets (EOY)

  $104,575

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $280,712

  Expenses

  $355,155

  Assets (EOY)

  $375,348

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $401,729

  Expenses

  $257,546

  Assets (EOY)

  $73,272

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $201,874

  Expenses

  $453,571

  Assets (EOY)

  $0

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $333,310

  Expenses

  $420,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $111,797

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $500,077

  Expenses

  $459,313

  Assets (EOY)

  $168,973

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $238,042

  Expenses

  $348,599

  Assets (EOY)

  $124,404

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

• NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC

  $90,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA

  $57,774

  2023 · OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC

  $55,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND

  $45,270

  2023 · SUBCONTRACT GRANT AWARD

• RIVER NETWORK

  $44,075

  2023 · RIVER CONSERVATION

• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION

  $35,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE

• NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION

  $30,000

  2024 · CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE

• ECORISE YOUTH INNOVATIONS

  $27,500

  2023

• THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND

  $22,998

  2023 · SUBCONTRACT GRANT AWARD

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $22,493

  2023 · COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT

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

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