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BACKYARD GROWERS INC

EIN 47-1553021 GLOUCESTER, MA

Revenue 2024
$670,514
Expenses 2024
$700,186

Program services were 62.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
2100
Street
103R MAPLEWOOD 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 · 2024

Mission

BACKYARD GROWERS CULTIVATES HEALTHY, CONNECTED, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AND FIGHTS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY BY EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD. WE INCREASE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO VEGETABLE GARDENS AND THE RESOURCES PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES NEED TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BACKYARD GROWERS CULTIVATES HEALTHY, CONNECTED, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES AND FIGHTS FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY BY EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD. WE INCREASE EQUITABLE ACESS TO VEGETABLE GARDENS AND THE RESOURCES PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES NEED TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD.

  • SCHOOL PROGRAMMING IN GLOUCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. GARDEN-BASED PROGRAMMING AT EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN GLOUCESTER, IN THE SPRING AND THE FALL, ALONG WITH TASTE TEST PROGRAMMING IN ALL GPS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR. COMMUNITY GARDEN MANAGEMENT. WE MANAGE 6 COMMUNITY GARDEN SITES THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF GLOUCESTER. COMMUNITY PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT GARDEN EDUCATION AND RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT GLOUCESTER AND THE NORTH SHORE, INCLUDING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR TEEN PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $434,923 · Revenue $49,963

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.

  • JEN PERRY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALLISON MUELLER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHARON LAWLOR

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN TAGGART

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUZANNE CLERKIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL ROMARY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALISON WOITUNSKI DIFIORE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,731
    From this org
    $90,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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
    $670,514
    Expenses
    $700,186
    Contributions
    $618,118
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $557,116
    Expenses
    $621,444
    Contributions
    $537,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $490,195
    Expenses
    $548,535
    Contributions
    $470,989
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $198,023
    Expenses
    $324,100
    Contributions
    $166,604
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $487,453
    Expenses
    $424,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,437

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $443,641
    Expenses
    $317,624
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,602

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,284
    Expenses
    $301,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $246,942

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $306,757
    Expenses
    $298,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,821

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $355,865
    Expenses
    $262,998
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,411

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $203,444
    Expenses
    $200,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,944

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $188,787
    Expenses
    $159,024
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,991

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

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.