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WYLDE CENTER INC

EIN 58-2339007 DECATUR, GA

Revenue 2024
$1,911,671
Expenses 2024
$1,141,540

Program services were 65.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
435 OAKVIEW RD

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

Founded in 1997, Wylde Center, formerly the Oakhurst Community Garden Project, is a non-profit environmental education organization. It features 7 acres of community greenspace. Wylde Centers main office is located in Decatur, Georgia serving residents in both Decatur and Atlanta. Wylde Center manages two gardens in Decatur and three gardens in Atlanta. Its education programs take place in metro Atlanta. Wylde Center recognizes the importance of engaging with the natural world for youth and adults alike and provides opportunities for doing so through our on-site and outreach programming, membership, imaginative garden features and variety of native habitats. Wylde Center actively engages youth, families, and individuals in their environment, health, and community through organized programs, classes, and events that develop creative skills in sustainable urban living, organic gardening, health and nutrition.

  • For the year ended June 30, 2025, Wylde Center fulfilled its mission through the following programs:CONSERVATION: Urban greenspace conservation and native habitat restoration provide communities with access to nature in the neighborhoods where they live.Wylde Center preserves eight acres of greenspace at five sites (Oakhurst Garden, Sugar Creek Garden, Hawk Hollow, Edgewood Community Learning Garden, and Mulberry Fields Garden), located in four different Decatur and Atlanta neighborhoods across 7 acres. Wylde Center's management of these greenspaces is coupled with impactful, hands-on environmental education for adults and youth, conservation efforts, demonstrations in the gardens, and community food production. Urban greenspace conservation is critical to increasing biodiversity that is threatened by urban over-development. EDUCATION: Environmental science, gardening, and healthy-living education programs to foster a deeper understanding of science, technology, arts, engineering, and math (STEAM) and improve student academic achievement. Wylde Center has one of the largest environmental education programs in our region. Wylde Centers environmental science, gardening, and healthy-living education programs foster a deeper understanding of science, technology, arts, engineering, and math (STEAM) and improve student academic achievement. Wylde Centers programs reach school-aged children throughout the Metro-Atlanta area. Through the Wylde Centers standards-based curriculum, students increase knowledge in all subject areas, with a particular focus on science and natural systems (STEM). On average, the Organization hosts 2,500 school-age children each year for field trips at its four sites, and through its in-school programs, the Wylde Center records 20,000 student interactions with more than 20 schools across the region. Programs at theOrganizations partner schools take place both in the classroom and on the school grounds, many of which have natural areas and vegetable gardens used for hands-on learning. Field trips to the Organizations greenspaces encourage students to explore academic classroom content with a hands-on, experiential approach that inspires curiosity and reinforces learning. Wylde Centers education programs:-Increase time spent outdoors for school-aged children interacting with the natural world through hands-on activities, exploration, and play during field trips, school programs, and camps-Increase exposure to fresh fruits and vegetables through taste tests and cooking classes-Benefit people and the environment through hands-on learning experiences about sustainable living practices PLANT DISTRIBUTION: The plant nursery operation and seasonal plant sales increase access to edible and native plants for community gardens, home gardens, and urban farms.Wylde Centers plant nursery produces over 80,000 seedlings each year for sale to the community. Last year, 5,000 seedlings were donated to school gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and other community partners with food-access programs. Wylde Centers plant nursery increases the amount of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are grown and consumed in our local community. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Community garden plots, volunteering, and outreach through events and classes that promote gardening, healthy living, sustainability, and a connection to the natural world.Wylde Center is a leader in metro-Atlanta for its robust gardening and education programs. Wylde Center offers lifelong learning opportunities to build environmental awareness, promote sustainability, support community gardening, and connect members of the public with the natural world. Through community garden plots, engaging public events, hands-on workshops, and meaningful opportunities to volunteer, community members gain knowledge and skills. The Organization offers nature and gardening programs for families, nature enthusiasts, and the curious novice. These programs bring value to the four greenspaces Wylde Center manages, while also providing programs that reinforce gardening, having fun in nature,sustainable living, and environmental science.

    Expenses $748,484 · Revenue $230,315

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.

  • JENNIFER GERNDT

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $90,000
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JILL WASSERMAN

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • EMILIE BRYANT

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC JACOBS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATALIE ANDERSON

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAEMON GOODWIN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAT HEDRICK

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ABE KRUGER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC MACK

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ALEX MOUTAFTCHIEVA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CONNIE VEATES

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KALLE WATERHOUSE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • THOMAS WHITLEY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARC WISNIEWSKI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PEDEN YOUNG

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,911,671
    Expenses
    $1,141,540
    Contributions
    $1,626,169
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,451,390
    Expenses
    $1,059,117
    Contributions
    $1,174,433
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,188,798
    Expenses
    $932,482
    Contributions
    $856,554
    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
    $1,551,031
    Expenses
    $813,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,973,890

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $689,543
    Expenses
    $653,175
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,253,583

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $704,011
    Expenses
    $613,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,255,658

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $646,426
    Expenses
    $550,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $954,405

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $592,109
    Expenses
    $628,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $894,900

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $528,934
    Expenses
    $528,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $925,576

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $495,938
    Expenses
    $440,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $920,697

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $439,832
    Expenses
    $438,897
    Assets (EOY)
    $864,408

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $469,484
    Expenses
    $436,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $861,057

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