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GROWING GARDENS

EIN 84-1454093 BOULDER, CO

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Revenue 2025
$2,467,025
Expenses 2025
$1,995,349

Program services were 83.0% 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
1630 HAWTHORN 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 · 2025

Mission

GROWING GARDENS' MISSION IS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE URBAN AGRICULTURE THAT EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE A DIRECT AND DEEP CONNECTION WITH PLANTS, THE LAND, AND EACH OTHER.

  • GROWING GARDENS HAS THE FOLLOWING MAJOR PROGRAMS: FOOD PROJECT PROGRAM CULTIVA YOUTH PROJECT COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM COMMUNITY CLASSES LOCAL FARM PROJECT GOAT DAIRY PROJECT -------------------- SEE DESCRIPTIONS ON SCHEDULE O --------------------

    Expenses $910,174 · Revenue $524,116

  • PEACE GARDEN: THE PEACE GARDEN PROGRAM OF GROWING GARDENS PROVIDES NUTRITION EDUCATION AND HANDS-ON LEARNING TO PRESCHOOL- 8TH GRADE CHILDREN. FIELD TRIPS ARE HOSTED ON FARMS IN BOTH BOULDER AND LONGMONT AND EDUCATORS VISIT CLASSROOMS TO EDUCATE STUDENTS THROUGH ST VRAIN VALLEY AND BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SUMMER CAMPS AND DAY OFF SCHOOL CAMPS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN TO BE ENGAGED AND LEARNING ON THE FARM.

    Expenses $745,885 · Revenue $328,022

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Vanessa Keeley

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $157,479
    From this org
    $153,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,229
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,250
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,229
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $157,479
  • Marcia Greenblatt

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Drew Britton

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anna Foley

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mariah McPherson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ryan Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carly Mayer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Esteban Rayos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ana Casas Ibarra

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Seelye

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stewart Ward

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jess Morgan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Koval

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Locke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,467,025
    Expenses
    $1,995,349
    Contributions
    $1,563,645
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,993,917
    Expenses
    $1,831,928
    Contributions
    $1,188,143
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,644,679
    Expenses
    $1,728,113
    Contributions
    $857,894
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,597,543
    Expenses
    $1,520,237
    Contributions
    $929,696
    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
    $1,291,556
    Expenses
    $1,257,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,255,996
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,242,372
    Expenses
    $1,043,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,216,163
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,140,308
    Expenses
    $1,093,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,929,637
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,302,671
    Expenses
    $913,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,889,773
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,302,671
    Expenses
    $913,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,889,773
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $966,949
    Expenses
    $775,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,232,182
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $876,557
    Expenses
    $698,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $912,898
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $651,294
    Expenses
    $641,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $736,674
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $670,581
    Expenses
    $586,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $732,983
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,564
    Expenses
    $536,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $632,145

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.