2024-02-10T13:36:54-07:00 2023-09-30 990 2022-10-01 431798337 THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER FRIE 3147258314 8025 Blackberry Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 Scott Shippey Treasurer 3147258314 2024-01-27 Scott Shippey 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z The Green Center Joyce Wilks Booth 8025 Blackberry Ave Saint Louis MO 63130 215328 0 X www.thegreencenter.org X 1992 MO The Green Center is an arts and environmental organization dedicated to helping people understand the natural world through hands-on experiences, restoring native habitats, and encouraging artistic expression inspired by nature. 8 8 4 70 0 0 153859 162900 37423 28189 9144 24239 0 0 200426 215328 0 0 0 0 159581 167355 0 0 10824 80744 63448 240325 230803 -39899 -15475 489236 496407 5162 4579 484074 491828 The Green Center is an arts and environmental organization dedicated to helping people understand the natural world through hands-on experiences, restoring native habitats, and encouraging artistic expression inspired by nature. 0 0 116374 116817 Education: The Green Center supports the scout badge program, provided hands-on experiences for 2,200 students in K-8, while supporting a vegetable garden program for six local elementary schools, and provides various summer day camps. The Green Center also instituted an early learning childhood nature play and story telling program that served 220 children aged three to eight. In addition to these programs the Green Center offers educational experiences geared toward adults. The Green Center hosts a quarterly speaker series inviting various professionals to discuss how they connect to nature. The educational staff provides hands-on professional development seminars in ecology, inquiry based methodologies and arts integration for local teachers and informal educators. 79627 80094 Outdoor Learning Spaces: The Green Center restores and maintains 30 acres of native hardwood forest, prairie and wetlands. 9153 9359 Arts: The Green Center's headquarters serves as a venue for artists whose visual, dramatic and literary production explore the connection between nature and the arts. in 2019 the Green Center hosted the Fall Fire Festival which included artist exhibitions drawing over 200 adults and children. 0 0 0 205154 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 X X Scott Shippey 3147258314 8025 Blackberry Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 Peg Kaltenthaler Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Calvin Board Member 1 X 0 0 0 John Solodar Board Member 2 X 0 0 0 Tricia Niehoff Board Member 2 X 0 0 0 Scott Shippey Treasurer 3 X 0 0 0 Ankoor Shah Secretary 1 X 0 0 0 Joyce Wilks-Love President 2 X 0 0 0 Irv Logan Vice President 2 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11055 19355 0 0 1120 131370 114993 162900 Nature Education 900099 28189 28189 0 0 0 0 0 0 28189 24239 24239 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 215328 52428 0 0 155650 140170 7740 7740 11705 10535 585 585 6050 1818 4131 101 2272 2044 114 114 9241 8909 166 166 3982 3584 199 199 25514 22967 1273 1274 3675 3675 781 711 22 48 6612 5951 330 331 4871 4384 243 244 Misc 407 367 20 20 Equipment Rental 43 39 2 2 230803 205154 14825 10824 221200 221871 4504 375 91274 29167 68720 62107 194812 212054 489236 496407 5162 4579 5162 4579 X 360501 373921 123573 117907 484074 491828 489236 496407 -15475 229 23000 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 201512 106352 159558 153859 162900 784181 27570 28086 22402 37423 43369 158850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19200 27399 19801 19800 20000 106200 248282 161837 201761 211082 226269 1049231 116175 119345 100349 108834 114993 559696 0 0 0 0 0 0 116175 119345 100349 108834 114993 559696 489535 9763 14977 40186 -32453 24322 56795 0 0 0 9763 14977 40186 -32453 24322 56795 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 258045 176814 241947 178629 250591 1106026 0.44261 0.45973 0.05135 0.03406 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 59339 114993 5667 0 104993 10000 65006 72637 108834 -13298 0 98834 10000 59339 65141 108732 7496 0 98732 10000 72637 58752 111175 6488 0 101274 10000 65141 28616 109910 2769 0 72543 10000 58752 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 91274 0 29167 62107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62107 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 The term restricted portions of the endowment is to pay payroll expenses of the staff. X 8 114993 FMV 0 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The directors Liz Calvin and Irv Logan are siblings. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The organization's treasurer distributes the 990 draft to the board either electronically or at a board meeting. The board accepts or rejects the 990 based on the treasurer's recommendation. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c No employee, board member or agent of the Green Center shall participate in the selection, administration or award of a contract supported by a grant or agency funds if a real or apparent conflict of interest is evident. Such a conflict would arise when an employee, board member or agent or any member of his or her immediate family, his or her partner, or an organization that employs or is about to employ the parties indicated therein, has a financial or other interest in the firm selected for an award. Employees, board members, or agents of the Green Center shall neither solicit nor accept gratuities, favors or anything of monetary value from contractors or parties to subagreements However, employees board members or agents of the Center may accept unsolicited items of nominal value, defined as $25 or less. The Board of Directors shall provide oversight of contractor selection, investigation of all apparent conflicts of interest. Should an employee, board member, or agent be found to be in violation of these codes of conduct, a formal letter of reprimand shall be issued. A second offense will be cause for removal from the board, or termination. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Employee compensation is reviewed at least annually by the Board of Directors. Compensation for newly hired employees is set by the Board of Directors. Employee compensation is reviewed at least annually by the Board of Directors. Compensation for newly hired employees is set by the Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Green Center provides copies of governing documents and annual filings upon request. The Form 990 is available on the following website: http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/43-1798337/friends-green-center.aspx