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TAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC

EIN 82-1454431 ROCHESTER, NY

Revenue 2024
$411,243
Expenses 2024
$391,423

Program services were 75.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S31
Classification
1200
Street
20 FIRST ST UNIT B

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

TAPROOT'S MISSION IS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY GARDENS THROUGH PROGRAMS, MATERIALS, AND POLICY,AND TO USE URBAN AGRICULTURE AS THE SETTING FOR HIGH QUALITY YOUTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. OUR VISION IS A CITY OF ROCHESTER FILLED WITH THRIVING NEIGHBORHOODS.

  • TAPROOT WORKS WITH COMMUNITY GARDENS LOCATED ON VACANT LOTS AND AT SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, R CENTERS, FOOD PANTRIES, AND GRASSROOTS NONPROFITS. OUR PROGRAMS FOCUS ON INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY GARDENERS TO FEED, BEAUTIFY, AND CONNECT WITH THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. OUR GARDEN PROGRAM, THE COLLECTIVE, SUPPORTS OVER 70 COMMUNITY GARDENS A YEAR. THE SERVICES INCLUDE WORKSHOPS, MATERIALS GIVEAWAYS, GARDEN PLANNING AND DESIGN, INSTALLATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, AND BACK-END SUPPORT WITH RESOURCE AND VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT, LAND ACCESS, AND STRATEGY. PARTICIPANTS IN OUR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM - THE COMMUNITY FOOD TEAM - BUILD SKILLS IN GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, AND CARPENTRY IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD JUSTICE FRAMEWORK, WHILE BUILDING AND INSTALLING PROJECTS AT COMMUNITY GARDENS. WE HIRE 30-40 YOUTH INTERNS EACH YEAR FOR SUMMER AND YEAR-ROUND OPPORTUNITIES. WE FOCUS ON BUILDING SUPPORTIVE, LONG-TERM EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH THAT PREPARE THEM TO REACH THEIR CAREER OR EDUCATIONAL GOALS.

    Expenses $296,475 · Revenue $411,243

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • STEPHANIE BENWAY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MADELAINE BRITT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MIKE EVANS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KRISTIN HOCKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LESLIE KNOX

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • AMBER POWERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • NICOLE VIGGIANO

    TREASURER

    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
    $411,243
    Expenses
    $391,423
    Contributions
    $386,153
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $179,531
    Expenses
    $226,552
    Contributions
    $179,064
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $183,502
    Expenses
    $106,934
    Contributions
    $163,383
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $125,891
    Expenses
    $37,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,129

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Leslie Knox
Mailing address
20 First StreetRochester NY 14605
Website
taprootcollective.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.