JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION

EIN 23-7393771 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2024: $5,635,681
Expenses 2024: $5,834,887

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 3000
Street: 54TH LINDBERGH BLVD

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

CREATE EQUITABLE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PEOPLE AND NATURE THROUGH IMMERSIVE, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN EXPERIENCES THAT ACTIVATE THE BARTRAM LEGACY, GARDEN, AND HOUSE, ON LAND AND ON THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER, IN SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ACTIVATE BARTRAM'S GARDEN THROUGH EQUITABLE, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN EXPERIENCES IN NATURE

BARTRAM'S GARDEN IS A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, A FREE PUBLIC PARK, AND AN URBAN RIVER GARDEN WELCOMING MORE THAN 125,000 VISITORS EACH YEAR. WITH 50 ACRES ON THE TIDAL SCHUYLKILL RIVER IN HEAVILY INDUSTRIALIZED SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA, THE GARDEN OFFERS FREE RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS FOR VISITORS OF ALL AGES TO CONNECT WITH THE CITY'S NATURAL ECOSYSTEM, WITH A FOCUS ON YOUTH LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING, AND ACCESS TO THE RIVER.

Expenses $4,538,629 · Grants $120,000 · Revenue $144,632

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.

CHARLES LOMAX

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ERIC W SWANSON AIA

VICE-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ROBERT S PUGLIESE PHARMD BCPS

VICE-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
PAUL VERNON

VICE-PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
KATE TYSON

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ANNA JUNGCLAUS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ROBERT ALLEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
J BLAINE BONHAM JR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
FRANCESCA FIAMINGO

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
LAWRENCE JONES

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
PAUL LANTIERI III

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
LISA M MILLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
VANIA MILLER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
ADRIANE Y PARKS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
EVA RAY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
TARIK RYANT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
DAVID SCHULTZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
BEN VERSHBOW

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
MONICA ZIMMERMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
ELIZABETH BRESSI-STOPPE

EMERITUS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
SIDNEY B SPAHR

EMERITUS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
MAITREYI ROY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$143,469

From this org

$124,846

From related orgs

$0

Other

$18,623

Hours/week

40

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

$5,635,681

Expenses

$5,834,887

Contributions

$5,135,303

Grants paid

$120,000
2023

Revenue

$3,663,032

Expenses

$4,189,183

Contributions

$3,079,652

Grants paid

$60,000
2022

Revenue

$6,295,796

Expenses

$3,749,722

Contributions

$5,863,553

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$5,635,681	$5,834,887	$5,135,303	$120,000
2023	$3,663,032	$4,189,183	$3,079,652	$60,000
2022	$6,295,796	$3,749,722	$5,863,553	$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

$2,805,370

Expenses

$3,482,093

Assets (EOY)

$5,352,246
2020 · 990

Revenue

$3,124,267

Expenses

$3,189,114

Assets (EOY)

$6,572,537
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,886,955

Expenses

$2,634,109

Assets (EOY)

$6,472,723
2018 · 990

Revenue

$5,517,484

Expenses

$2,276,227

Assets (EOY)

$6,717,611
2017 · 990

Revenue

$1,562,313

Expenses

$1,961,333

Assets (EOY)

$3,370,935
2015 · 990

Revenue

$4,524,450

Expenses

$3,210,824

Assets (EOY)

$4,889,299
2014 · 990

Revenue

$1,647,690

Expenses

$1,604,284

Assets (EOY)

$2,862,099
2013 · 990

Revenue

$1,396,052

Expenses

$1,248,232

Assets (EOY)

$3,455,139
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$943,796

Assets (EOY)

$2,945,877

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$2,805,370	$3,482,093	$5,352,246
2020	990	$3,124,267	$3,189,114	$6,572,537
2019	990	$1,886,955	$2,634,109	$6,472,723
2018	990	$5,517,484	$2,276,227	$6,717,611
2017	990	$1,562,313	$1,961,333	$3,370,935
2015	990	$4,524,450	$3,210,824	$4,889,299
2014	990	$1,647,690	$1,604,284	$2,862,099
2013	990	$1,396,052	$1,248,232	$3,455,139
2012	990	not reported	$943,796	$2,945,877

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

PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT

$60,000

2024 URBAN FARMING EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
NEIGHBORHOOD LAND AND POWER PROJECT

$60,000

2024 URBAN FARMING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
URBAN TREE CONNECTION

$30,000

2023 URBAN FARMING EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT

$30,000

2023 URBAN FARMING EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

$321,279

2024 YOUTH STEWARDSHIP ON THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER
PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

$186,000

2024 Civic Life
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

$152,111

2023 YOUTH STEWARDSHIP ON THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS

$144,000

2022 ARTS AND CULTURAL PROJECTS
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

$131,888

2024 YOUTH WORKFORCE - NATURE
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA

$125,430

2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
RITE AID HEALTHY FUTURES

$125,000

2024 STRENGTHENING CITIES GRANT APPLICATION
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

$97,514

2022 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY

$85,000

2022 CIVIC COMMONS GRANT
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION

$79,523

2024 CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.