MORE GARDENS FUND

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

79 CLINTON ST APT 17, NEW YORK, NY 10002-3481

In care of

% ARESH JAVADI

Mailing address (990-N for 2018)

79 Clinton Street Suite 17, New York NY 10002

Principal officer (990-N for 2018)

Aresh Javadi, 79 Clinton Street Apt 17, New York NY 10002

Signed the 990-EZ

Aresh Javadi, Executive Director

Phone

(917) 518-9987

Website

http://www.moregardens.org/

Mission

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 accomplishments

• Program 1 - EDUCATIONAL ART 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- $5,000 Expenditure- $6,900 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- $5,000 Exp- $3,860 C-............................................................................................................................................................................................... Art & Nature - Open Street Sprouting Justice at Children's Magical Garden with DOT - Grants $36000 Exp 36,300
  Expenses $48,060 · grants $46,000
• 2 - 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.
  Expenses $15,000 · grants $15,000
• 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.
  Expenses $13,000 · grants $12,500
• Program 2 - 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.
  Expenses $7,714 · grants $5,000
• 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.
  Expenses $500 · grants $500
• Governors Island Defense Fund Fiscal Sponsorship
  Expenses $4,500 · grants $4,500

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

52-2415900

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2004

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Environment (C42)

Assets (IRS master file)

$5,472

Income (IRS master file)

$91,957

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 52-2415900).

Questions about MORE GARDENS FUND

What is the EIN of MORE GARDENS FUND?

The employer identification number (EIN) of MORE GARDENS FUND is 52-2415900.

Is MORE GARDENS FUND tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2004.

Are donations to MORE GARDENS FUND tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does MORE GARDENS FUND file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of MORE GARDENS FUND due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did MORE GARDENS FUND last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended December 2024.

Who is the principal officer of MORE GARDENS FUND?

The 990-N for 2018 names Aresh Javadi.

Who are the officers and directors of MORE GARDENS FUND?

The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 6 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.

How much revenue does MORE GARDENS FUND have?

On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $91,957, expenses of $92,691 and total assets of $5,472 at year end.

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