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THE BULB GALLERY

EIN 81-4676117 CHARLOTTE, NC

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Revenue 2024
$1,892,772
Expenses 2024
$1,750,739

Program services were 86.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K99
Classification
1000
Street
932 SEIGLE 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

See attachment O

  • Operated 368 mobile market events, served 16,917 individuals, distributed 258,402 pounds of fresh food. Launched two new market sites, with 946 check-ins, reached 3,641 household members, and distributed 23,395 pounds of produce. Expanded food rescue partnerships to include Whole Foods and Costco, which contributed 32,807 pounds of food for redistribution. A partnership with Titos Handmade Vodka and Crown Town Landscapes supported the creation of a community urban orchard, enhancing access to green space and future food production. Diverted over 43,000 pounds of organic waste through composting partnerships and implemented a single-use plastics reuse program that repurposed 194 pounds of clamshells and 31 pounds of egg cartons. Secured a one-year, $300,000 extension of American Rescue Plan Act funding from Mecklenburg County to be used in 2025. Secured a $70k grant from Truist Foundation to be used in 2025.

    Expenses $1,518,871

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.

  • Patricia Pitts

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Mathews

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelle Pressley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Dickens

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Mathews

    Interim Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    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
    $1,892,772
    Expenses
    $1,750,739
    Contributions
    $1,892,772
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,048,229
    Expenses
    $970,217
    Contributions
    $1,048,229
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $546,470
    Expenses
    $505,841
    Contributions
    $529,355
    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
    $332,204
    Expenses
    $337,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,398

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $332,204
    Expenses
    $337,912
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,398

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $188,370
    Expenses
    $155,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,316

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

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2020, reinstated 15 May 2020.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.