2025-05-15T12:55:08-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 522057946 ST GEORGES GARDEN CLUB INC STGE 4342585335 PO Box 1442 Brooklandville MD 21022 Kathryn Newhall Treasurer 4342585335 2025-05-15 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X https://stgeorgesgc.org/ X X 68756 X 54364 0 11560 2832 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 68756 11834 0 0 0 0 372 12571 24777 43979 63497 1189 108665 63497 108665 0 0 0 0 63497 108665 0 0 63497 108665 Founded in 1927, the purpose of St. George's Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and appreciation of horticulture and conservation through workshops, educational programs, and other civic activities for members and the general public. GCA Restoration Initiative Grant: St. George's applied for and was awarded a $10,000 Restoration Initiative Grant from the Garden Club of America ("GCA") to benefit the Irvine Nature Center in Stevenson, Maryland. The Irvine Nature Center was established in 1975 and is today the largest nonprofit center in the region, encompassing more than 200 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and meadows. The Center provides more than 800 environmental program sessions to more than 51,000 children and adults annually. The GCA's grant awarded to St. George's Garden Club was passed through to the Irvine Nature Center to rebuild the woodland garden that was destroyed by major storms in the prior year. 10000 10000 Civic Activities and Contributions: Annually, St, George's makes donations to organizations with similar interests, both within the Baltimore community and outside of it. This year, this included donations to Cylburn Arboretum, Maryland Daffodil Society, Maryland Horticultural Society, Irvine Nature Center, Ladew Gardens, House of Ruth, the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland's President's Project, and the GCA's General Scholarship Fund. These donations totaled $1,225. In addition, SGGC provides garden clean-up and plantings to communities and groups within the area. This year, the club organized two garden clean-up and planting events for the House of Ruth and designed their Christmas centerpieces. During that year, the House of Ruth shelter provided safe housing for 377 individuals. St. George's also helped with holiday decorating at Ladew Gardens, which attracts thousands to their holiday event, and helped with plantings at the Maryland Zoo, which sees more than 400,000 visitors a year. The planting and decorating costs to St. George's for this year were $609. 1834 1834 Educational Programming: St. George's Garden Club's educational programming in this fiscal year for its 74 members included, among other things, a bird talk with the Director of Education at the Irvine Nature Center; a talk by a botanical artist; a container gardening workshop; and a presentation by the women of Hon's Honey, a Maryland-based non-profit that teaches victims of human trafficking a skill set based on raising bees. In addition, St. George's hosted a horticulture and flower show at the Cylburn Arboretum that was open to the public. Along with other area garden clubs, St. George's co-hosted a symposium on mid-Atlantic gardening with over 100 members from garden clubs in the area in attendance. The symposium featured speakers from Longwood Gardens, the Mt. Cuba Center, and the National Arboretum. 0 2169 14003 Kristin Verbic President 3.5 0 0 0 Lucy Chittenden First Vice President 6.5 0 0 0 Nancy Hill Second Vice President 0.5 0 0 0 Elizabeth Insley Recording Secretary 1 0 0 0 Sheila Riggs Corresponding Secretary 0.5 0 0 0 Kathryn Newhall Treasurer 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MD Kathryn Newhall 10807 Falls Road PO Box 1442 Brooklandville MD 21022 4342585335 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 17440 14391 15280 25688 65924 138723 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17440 14391 15280 25688 65924 138723 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138723 2724 2319 3780 3515 2832 15170 0 0 0 0 0 0 2724 2319 3780 3515 2832 15170 0 0 0 0 0 0 -7665 1139 -6081 1450 1189 -9968 12499 17849 12979 30653 69945 143925 0.96386 0.83802 0.10540 0.1147 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Unrealized gains/losses from investment accounts RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 St. George's applied for and was awarded a $10,000 Restoration Initiative Grant from the Garden Club of America ("GCA") to benefit the Irvine Nature Center in Stevenson, Maryland. The Irvine Nature Center was established in 1975 and is today the largest nonprofit center in the region, encompassing more than 200 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and meadows. The Center provides more than 800 environmental program sessions to more than 51,000 children and adults annually. The GCA's grant awarded to St. George's Garden Club was passed through to the Irvine Nature Center to rebuild the woodland garden that was destroyed by major storms in the prior year. Annually, St, George's makes donations to organizations with similar interests, both within the Baltimore community and outside of it. This year, this included donations to Cylburn Arboretum, Maryland Daffodil Society, Maryland Horticultural Society, Irvine Nature Center, Ladew Gardens, House of Ruth, the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland's President's Project, and the GCA's General Scholarship Fund. These donations totaled $1,225. In addition, SGGC provides garden clean-up and plantings to communities and groups within the area. This year, the club organized two garden clean-up and planting events for the House of Ruth and designed their Christmas centerpieces. During that year, the House of Ruth shelter provided safe housing for 377 individuals. St. George's also helped with holiday decorating at Ladew Gardens, which attracts thousands to their holiday event, and helped with plantings at the Maryland Zoo, which sees more than 400,000 visitors a year. The planting and decorating costs to St. George's for this year were $609. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 This total includes administrative costs, member dues to both the Garden Club of America ("GCA") and the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland ("FGCMD"), conference and meeting registrations for both GCA and FGCMD, committee expenses, and educational programming. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 This reflects balance changes due to unrealized gains and losses in investment accounts.