2025-02-08T13:18:47-07:00 2024-09-30 990 2023-10-01 431798337 THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER FRIE 3147258314 8025 Blackberry Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 Scott Shippey Treasurer 3147258314 2025-01-31 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z The Green Center Joyce Wilks 8025 Blackberry Ave Saint Louis MO 63130 212389 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. 7 7 4 80 0 0 162900 159613 28189 35012 24239 17764 0 0 215328 212389 0 0 0 0 167355 162138 0 0 11735 63448 58322 230803 220460 -15475 -8071 496407 571976 4579 8775 491828 563201 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 83740 100467 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. 90982 94945 Outdoor Learning Spaces: The Green Center restores and maintains 30 acres of native hardwood forest, prairie and wetlands. 17519 16010 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 192241 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 7 7 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 2 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Calvin Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 John Solodar Board Member 4 0 X 0 0 0 Scott Shippey Treasurer 5 0 X X 0 0 0 Ankoor Shah Secretary 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Joyce Wilks President 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Irv Logan Vice President 4 0 X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11099 15172 0 0 1317 132025 115366 159613 Nature Education 900099 35012 35012 0 0 0 0 0 0 35012 17764 17764 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 212389 52776 0 0 150586 135226 7529 7831 11552 10373 578 601 8312 1720 6203 389 2244 1640 91 513 8915 8397 358 160 4574 4113 226 235 27377 24639 1342 1396 2980 2980 2072 1493 65 514 917 823 46 48 Bank Charges 191 172 9 10 Equipment Purchase and Maintenance 740 665 37 38 220460 192241 16484 11735 221871 236789 375 375 91284 35789 62107 55495 212054 279317 496407 571976 4579 8775 4579 8775 X 373921 422252 117907 140949 491828 563201 496407 571976 -8071 56944 22500 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 106352 159558 153859 162900 158646 741315 28086 22402 37423 43369 35079 166359 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27399 19801 19800 20000 22500 109500 161837 201761 211082 226269 216225 1017174 119345 100349 108834 114993 115366 558887 0 0 0 0 0 0 119345 100349 108834 114993 115366 558887 458287 14977 40186 -32453 24322 17764 64796 0 0 14977 40186 -32453 24322 17764 64796 0 0 0 0 0 176814 241947 178629 250591 233989 1081970 0.42357 0.44261 0.05989 0.05135 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 65006 115366 17843 0 105366 10000 82849 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 0 0.6 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 91284 0 35789 55495 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 55495 Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 The restricted part of the endowment generates investment income which is meant to pay operating expense as well as payroll for the staff. X 6 115366 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 organizations treasurer distributes the 990 draft to the 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 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 employ 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 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 Green Center may accept unsolicited items of nominal value, defined as $50 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 remobal from the board or terminiation. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Employee compensation is reviewed 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/43-1798337/friends-green-center-aspx