2025-05-16T12:24:10Z 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 311750544 North Lawndale Greening Committee NORT 7733327887 3853 W POLK ST Chicago IL IL 60624 Shemuel B Israel President 7733327887 2025-05-16 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X HTTPS://NLGREENINGCOMMITTEE.ORG X X 159326 X 159276 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 159326 33000 59639 1600 6982 101221 58105 111902 170007 111902 170007 0 0 0 0 111902 170007 0 0 111902 170007 Our primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational in nature. The North Lawndale Greening Committee provide beautification services to the residents of North Lawndale in Chicago through its care of 21 community garden spaces. We also grow nutrient dense food in 23 urban gardens, including one farm, for the benefit of our residents. Currently, we give away 100 percent of the food we grow to those who need it in our communities. Our Garden to Table program also rescues food from restaurants, grocery stores, and other programs and gives away approximately 240,000 pounds of food a year in our community. We provide soil testing, soil prescriptions, and training for gardener and growers throughout the Chicagoland area. The Good Food Purchasing Program supports our urban agriculture program and our controlled environment agriculture program (a hydroponic farm). This support included supplies for our hydroponic farm, seeds, equipment, infrastructure, and salary support for our employees Garden to Table Pipeline 74476 60000 Nature, Culture, and Human Health - A planning grant for curriculum development for gardening, urban agriculture and participation in nature. 4800 4600 Good Food Purchasing Initiative 80000 70000 134600 Ida Harden Garden to Table Coordinator 20.00 13801 0 0 Shemuel Israel President and Farm Operator 60.00 41600 0 0 Keturah Israel Assistant Secretary 5.00 0 0 0 Mamie Gray Director 20.00 0 0 0 Doretha Penn Secretary 2.00 0 Kimberly George Director 5.00 0 X false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false IL Dr Shemuel Israel 14131 South Dearborn St RIVERDALE IL 608272227 7733327887 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 0 0 0 15438 21826 28440 183575 159326 408605 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15438 21826 28440 183575 159326 408605 0 408605 0 0 0 0 408605 0 1.00000 1.00000 X X Part II, Line 17a The North Lawndale Greening Committee (NLGC) is a membership organization requiring dues. Memberships are set at $25 per year for individuals, $50 per year for Garden memberships, and $75 per year for organizational members. These membership dues are designed for community members to become involved in our beautification efforts, to engaged in gardening, and to help us grow food. Part III, line 12 NLGC received no contributions from any related activity. Part I, Line 10 $12,000 to Permaculture Chicago Teaching Institute for classes, equipment, and certification in permaculture $21,000 to our Garden member's organization for a African Styled Pergola in African Heritage Garden Part V, Line 33 The organization has grown its capacity to provide significantly more food resources to those needing to supplement its table. People can pick their own vegetables at the garden locations and we have provided several location to access these resources. We did not file on time due to problems with our Freight Farm support (controlled environment agriculture) filing bankruptcy and ceasing operations. We had an immediate breakdown in our hydroponic unit. So I am staying up all night to complete this on May 15 and the early hours of May 16.