North Lawndale Greening Committee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311750544
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7733327887
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,675
- Expenses
- $123,495
- Assets
- $127,187
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shemuel Israel (President and Farm Operator)
People named in this filing
- Lamont Liishman (Garden to Table Coordinator)
- Shemuel Israel (President and Farm Operator)
- Keturah Israel (Assistant Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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 gardeners/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.
What it reported doing in 2025
Columbia College for Archeology and anthropology dig
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.3%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -53.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.3% of revenue deployed · 28.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.