2024-12-05T23:58:13-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 522415900 MORE GARDENS FUND MORE 9175189987 79 Clinton Street - Suite 17 New York NY 10002 Aresh Javadi Executive Director 9175189987 2024-12-05 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X http://www.moregardens.org/ X X 92780 X 92780 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92780 0 0 0 49632 8269 6251 50862 115014 -22234 -58187 -543 -80964 X 25064 2831 0 0 6749 6205 31813 9036 90000 90000 -58187 -80964 More Gardens is a diverse coalition of community gardeners, artists, and activists committed to enhancing and preserving community gardens, farms and fallow lands in New York City and State. Rooted in earth-based art and education, we generate wellness, social justice, and abundance for low-income and immigrant communities. Program 1 - UPSTATE FARMLAND & RETREAT INITIATIVE: More Gardens has acquired a ten-year lease on an 8-acres of land in the Southern Catskills and is setting up the first phase of creating a home base for our Free Nature and Farming Programs, as well as a regenerative, low-impact environmental education center for community gardeners to come to share, learn, and deepen together for the benefit of nature and social justice. As well as this bridge to the NYC urban farming, the More Gardens' Initiative aims to deliver a successful low-impact living development in New York State's Catskills, benefiting the environment and local community economy. The settlement's achievements will be utilized to multiply regenerative benefits through its use as a research and demonstration resource to promote best practices and support the development of similarly successful projects. In particular, More Gardens aims to demonstrate the viability of low-impact development as a settlement model that has the potential to rejuvenate the rural landscape and economy. 7000 7250 Program 2 - EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES: ........................................................................................ A- South Bronx - Rise Up and Green the Bronx Family Programming - Mott Haven community gardeners, children, and their families. Programs create individual and group leadership skills for Bronx children and families. Upstate on Fern Dragon Farm and in Bronx Community Gardens, children and families learn organic farming techniques and increase nature awareness, nutrition, and wellness skills through art-making and games. The program grows leadership capabilities for Bronx residents, children, and young adults who want food and environmental justice for their neighborhoods. _Grant- $23,000 Expenditure- $25,000 ....................................................................................................................................................................... B - Lower East Side at Children's Magical Garden Family Programs This free camp ensures a beloved community garden serves the children who need it the most-- low-income city children who would not otherwise have access to nature. In our nature education programs, children are mentored by young educators and experienced gardeners and teachers. The children are immersed in permaculture, urban farming, strategies for youth activism, collaborative arts in nature, and herbal medicine to grow their unique creativity within group dynamics. We also go on trips to other community gardens and urban farms where the children can learn from wise urban farmers citywide. The inclusion of cooperative-style teaching deepens playful peer-to-peer learning. Parents and dedicated community garden members contribute to this camp's essential success and joy, strengthening the local community._____ Grant- $13,000 Exp- $8,000 34000 38000 Program 3 - ANNUAL CELEBRATIONS - More Gardens' Chaharshanbeh Suri NYC is a festival rooted in community, sharing, equity, and reverence for the earth through ritual fire jumping, art, music, food, and culture that began in the lands of West and Central Asia. This fire celebration nourishes our spirits, strengthens our connection to each other, and affirms our belonging by embracing our diverse nationalities, languages, faiths, class, genders, races, and sexual identities. We make gathering joyful through art, music, food, culture, and intergenerational sharing. We hold each other to tend the flames of love, justice, solidarity, and goodness across the planet and right here in the community green spaces of NYC.19,000 Expenses $21,000 26000 27000 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH-BASED ARTS: Earth-based Arts. Aresh Javadi, along with help from other artists including George Hirose is working on a children's playhouse as well as educational murals. Aresh is working on willow sculptures on More Gardens farmland and in community, gardens to enhance beauty and wonder. More Gardens works with many artists to create signs, songs, and colorful pageants to increase the vibrance of community gardens and to enhance our educational programming's effectiveness. 12000 14500 5 - THE ART & CAMPAIGNS OF NYC COMMUNITY GARDEN JUSTICE - ONLINE DATABASE: More Gardens! Is preserving, uploading, and creating historical context around pictorial and video archives to showcase the long history of the protection of community gardens to inspire the next generation of community gardeners and garden activists. 100 50 Governors Island Defense Fund Fiscal Sponsorship 25000 23000 109800 Judith Canepa Board President 1 0 0 0 Aresh Javadi Executive Director 29 0 0 0 Maritza Reyes Board Member 1 0 0 0 Katherine Fricke Board Treasurer 2 0 0 0 Nisaa Christie Board Treasurer 0.5 0 0 0 Karen Hinata Board Member 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NY Aresh Javadi 79 Clinton Street - Suite 17 New York NY 10002 9175189987 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 66827 15854 55033 68229 92780 298723 0 0 0 0 0 0 5000 5000 5000 5000 3000 23000 71827 20854 60033 73229 95780 321723 48678 273045 0 0 0 0 0 0 1373 101 820 502 0 2796 324519 0 0.84138 0.98801 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 There were no other income for 2023. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 None Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Documentation 700.00 Dues & Subscriptions 1,383.29 Education 67.80 Equipment rental 75.00 Fees Bank Charges 25.00 Merchant Fees (1.50) Taxes & Licenses 75.00 Total Fees $ 98.50 Food purchase 8,256.74 Freight & Delivery 18.00 Identity Theft / Internet Fraud 21.16 Insurance Insurance - Liability 3,389.42 Insurance - Vehicle 3,058.69 Protection plans 66.99 Total Insurance $ 6,515.10 Internet expense 78.25 Meals and Entertainment 1,510.58 Office Expenses 1,848.86 PayPal Fees 148.80 Portapotty 145.00 Purchases 1,108.00 Reimburse 81.00 Rent or Lease Space Rental 108.00 Returns 54.00 Scam 505.47 Software 0.10 Stipend 1,650.00 Supplies 992.01 Art Supplies 4,241.65 Books 409.66 Building materials 107.79 Electronics 4,773.82 Farm -soil, compost ... 472.65 Hardwares 2,536.24 Outdoor Setup 773.75 Plants 947.49 Supplies & Materials 2,783.08 Tools 777.08 Total Supplies $ 18,815.22 Travel Car Maintenance 781.75 Car Rental 476.97 Fuel 2,544.88 Mass-Transit 523.20 Parking, tolls, etc 2,683.09 Taxi 663.61 Total Travel $ 7,673.50 Website 108.00 Other Expenditures $ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 depreciation of the vehicle by $543 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 ASSETS Current Assets Bank Accounts Cash on hand 52.44, PayPal Bank 5,126.79, Peoples FCU Money Market 0.00, Peoples FCU Checking (2,478.51), Peoples FCU Savings 130.07, Total Bank Accounts $ 2,830.79 Accounts Receivable Pledges Receivable 0.00, Total Accounts Receivable $ - Other Current Assets Inventory Asset 0.00 Undeposited Funds 0.00 Total Other Current Assets $ - Total Current Assets $ 2,830.79, Fixed Assets Accumulated Depreciation (13,498.40), Vehicle 16,873.00, Total Fixed Assets $ 3,374.60, TOTAL ASSETS $ 6,205.39 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 90000 - long term loan Our tax return was filed late due to unforeseen and extreme circumstances caused by the Florida storms in 2024. These severe weather events directly impacted our accounting firm, My Paper Pusher, LLC, at 6930 W Linebaugh Ave Tampa, FL 33625. The storms caused significant disruptions to their operations, which prevented them from completing our tax return by the original deadline.