2026-02-14T15:55:47-07:00 2025-09-30 990 2024-10-01 431798337 THE FRIENDS OF THE GREEN CENTER FRIE 3147258314 8025 Blackberry Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 Scott Shippey Treasurer 3147258314 2026-02-08 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z The Green Center Joyce Wilks 8025 Blackberry Avenue Saint Louis MO 63130 253606 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. 9 9 3 100 0 0 159613 175590 35012 33385 17764 44631 0 0 212389 253606 0 0 0 0 162138 170807 0 0 12526 58322 65621 220460 236428 -8071 17178 571976 611653 8775 7456 563201 604197 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 105001 126257 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. 76863 6592 Outdoor Learning Spaces: The Green Center restores and maintains 30 acres of native hardwood forest, prairie and wetlands. 27451 51438 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 2024 the Green Center hosted the Fall Fire Festival which included artist exhibitions drawing over 200 adults and children. 0 0 0 209315 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 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 9 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 Elizabeth Calvin Board Member 2 0 X X 0 0 0 John Solodar Board Member 3 0 X 0 0 0 Scott Shippey Treasurer 4 0 X X 0 0 0 Ankoor Shah Secretary 2 X X 0 0 0 Joyce Wilks President 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Irv Logan Vice President 3 X X 0 0 0 Beverly Tucker Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Smith-Simms Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Jolene Klingenberg Board Memeber 2 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11871 10633 0 0 8709 144377 114794 175590 33385 33385 0 0 33385 44631 44631 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 253606 78016 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 159085 141914 9366 7805 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11722 10433 703 586 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3410 1935 1366 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3304 1900 128 1276 7135 6718 100 317 4164 3707 249 208 0 0 0 0 32310 28756 1939 1615 1507 1507 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 1434 30 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6612 5885 397 330 4281 3810 257 214 Bank Charges 104 93 6 5 Equipment Purchases & Maintenance 1306 1223 46 37 236428 209315 14587 12526 236789 247757 375 91284 42401 55495 48883 279317 315013 571976 611653 8775 7456 8775 7456 X 422252 454700 140949 149497 563201 604197 571976 611653 17178 -182 24000 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 159558 153859 162900 158646 175590 810553 22402 37423 43369 35079 33847 172120 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19801 19800 20000 22500 24000 106101 201761 211082 226269 216225 233437 1088774 100349 108834 114993 115366 114794 554336 0 0 0 0 0 0 100349 108834 114993 115366 114794 554336 534438 40186 -32453 24322 17764 44361 94180 40186 -32453 24322 17764 44361 94180 0 0 241947 178629 250591 233989 277798 1182954 0.45178 0.42357 0.07961 0.05989 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 82869 114794 2794 0 99040 10000 91417 65008 115386 17843 0 105368 10000 82869 59339 114993 5667 0 104993 10000 65006 72637 108834 -11298 0 98834 10000 61339 65141 108732 7496 0 98732 10000 72637 0 0.55 0.45 0 0 0 0 0 91284 0 42401 48883 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48883 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 10 114794 FMV 0 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Irv Logan and Elizabeth Calvin 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 hat 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, y 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