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POLYGRARIAN INSTITUTE

EIN 81-1021982 RENO, NV

Revenue 2024
$323,794
Expenses 2024
$284,937

Program services were 73.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B28
Classification
2000
Street
972 BATES AVE

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

CULTIVATE COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEMS

  • FOOD EQUITY: WE GROW THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF FOOD EACH YEAR AND DONATE 1/3 - 1/2 OF WHAT WE GROW. DONATED OVER 6,000 LBS OF PRODUCE TO FOOD PANTRY DISTRIBUTION OULETS AND OVER 600 SEEDLINGS TO COMMUNITY GARDENS. OFFER SEASONAL WORKSHOPS AND COMMUNITY GARDENING COURSES.

    Expenses $149,599 · Grants $123,386

  • COMMUNITY GARDEN: PLANTING AND MAINTAINING FRUIT TREES. THIS SUPPORTS OUR FOOD EQUITY PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

    Expenses $59,076 · Grants $47,352

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.

  • Lyndsey Langsdale

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $61,866
    From this org
    $61,866
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jolene Cook

    Director

    Total calculated
    $33,426
    From this org
    $33,426
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Melissa Gilbert

    Director

    Total calculated
    $19,421
    From this org
    $19,421
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Katy Chandler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $323,794
    Expenses
    $284,937
    Contributions
    $256,254
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $194,476
    Expenses
    $318,192
    Contributions
    $146,371
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $333,538
    Expenses
    $251,201
    Contributions
    $276,788
    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
    $328,905
    Expenses
    $272,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,241
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $322,175
    Expenses
    $266,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,983
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,491
    Expenses
    $121,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,898

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Melissa Hafey
Mailing address
316 California Avenue 851Reno NV 89509
Website
renofoodsystems.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.