URBAN WOODLANDS COMMUNITY GARDENS INC DBA THE LOTUS GARDEN
EIN 90-0997073 NEW YORK, NY
- Revenue 2025
- $19,977
- Expenses 2025
- $18,110
Program services were 76.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C41
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 134
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
Primary exempt purpose
Providing a community garden for quiet enjoyment, gardening, and education
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CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A .18 ACRE ROOFTOP GARDEN FOR COMMUNITY ENJOYMENT. The garden is planted with a wide variety of trees, ornamentals, perennials and shrubs, and contains fish ponds with aquatic plants, a labelled herb garden and small seating areas. In 2025, 185 new community members joined the garden and 297 renewed their membership. Of those, 89 donated $50 or more which comprised 60% of our membership revenue. Membership is nominally a $20 donation, $10 for seniors. The garden is open to all on Sundays when two gardeners are in attendance.
Expenses $7,847
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION In 2025 we welcomed 11 school and adult groups comprising about 125 individuals in total. We also participated in New York Open House and had 300 visitors that day. We hosted three annual garden events including a Halloween party for all neighborhood children and their care givers attended by about 100 people; a Kids Arts and Crafts Day open to all and attended by 40 people; and our Summer Solstice Garden Reception attended by about 90 community members. We maintain a website.
Expenses $2,754
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CREATION OF OPPORTUNITIES TO ACTIVELY GARDEN AND TO VOLUNTEER We provided 36 active Gardener Members opportunities to garden by providing plants, supplies and tools. We utilized 20 community member volunteers interested in gardening who assisted with watering, composting, bulb planting, and cleanup. We provided Community Service Credits totaling 250 hours for 25 High School volunteers who helped with welcoming visitors during Sunday open hours, sweeping paths and steps, replacing plot edging, weeding, carrying heavy items, laying mulch on paths, cutting up pruning debris, and other garden tasks.
Expenses $3,193
As filed on the 2025 return.
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.
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Karen Gershenhorn
Co-president; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7
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Eve Kahn
Co-president; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7
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Kenneth Karpel
Treasurer; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7
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Julie Lasky
Secretary, Communications Comm. Chair, Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Louise Kindley
Membership Committee Chair; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Pam White
Horticultural Committee Chair; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Rachel Weinstein
Program Committee Chair; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Monica Willis
Fundraising Committee Chair ; Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $19,977
- Expenses
- $18,110
- Contributions
- $16,558
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $32,991
- Expenses
- $18,378
- Contributions
- $29,327
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $20,698
- Expenses
- $20,460
- Contributions
- $17,719
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $23,744
- Expenses
- $19,069
- Contributions
- $20,566
- 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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021
- Tax period
- 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
- Principal officer
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Kenneth Karpel
- Mailing address
- PO Box 134 Cathedral StationNew York NY 10025
- Website
- www.thelotusgarden.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 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
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$10,000
2024 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 January 2015.
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.