EIN 90-1002432

Garden Time

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
0
Year formed
2013
Most recent tax filings
2023-12-01
Description
Garden Time teaches incarcerated men and women how to cultivate gardens and grow food for their own well-being, while integrating job readiness skills and reentry support. In 2021, they created the Green Reentry Job Training program for released students. Co-founders started building a garden in a Rhode Island prison yard in 2011, and since then have added two more gardens at other facilities.
Total revenues
$379,521
2023
Total expenses
$354,243
2023
Total assets
$124,804
2023
Num. employees
0
2023

Program areas at Garden Time

In 2011, Garden Time's Co-founders worked with inmates at the men's maximum-security facility at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions to build a garden in an empty section of prison yard. Since then, we have added two more gardens at other facilities within the prison complex, and trained some 300 incarcerated men and women to become skilled gardeners. While producing thousands of pounds of produce for use in the prison kitchens, our participants have also gained self-confidence, a positive outlook, and a completely new connection to nature. In 2017 we expanded our work to include more explicit job preparation. The Garden Time to Work pre-employment program at the men's medium-security facility offers important life skills and job training for the green industry with reentry planning and support. In 2023 we ran in-prison programming for approx. 30 incarcerated gardeners.
As an extension of reentry support, Garden Time employs training graduates to be part of a tree care crew for young trees in the Silver Lake neighborhood that were planted during the training as well as those PNPP has designated as needing maintenance. They assist with watering, pruning and installing tree pit protection where they may be more vulnerable to vehicle damage. This young tree maintenance is critical to build and maintain the tree canopy to ensuring that the neighborhood experiences all the benefits urban trees provide. Being part of the tree maintenance crew provides seasonal part-time employment for Green Reentry trainees--all formerly incarcerated, predominantly people of color--as they search for permanent employment. In 2023, eleven training graduates participated in the tree maintenance crew.
In 2021, after ten years of teaching garden programs at the ACI and to extend opportunities for released students, Garden Time created the Green Reentry Job Training program, an 8-week green industry job training focused on tree stewardship, work readiness and environmental justice for formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders. Through our partnership with Providence Neighborhood Planting Program and Groundwork Rhode Island, trainees plant trees and gain valuable employment experience. We focus on trees because in the green industries, tree service tends to offer year-round work and a living wage. Also, tree equity is a relatable environmental justice concept for trainees who tend to live in lower-income, lower canopy neighborhoods. Finally, planting and maintaining trees is consistent with many formerly incarcerated individuals' desires to, as one student put it "give back and help in the positive development of the same communities I helped to destroy." In 2022, The Green Reentry Job Training program had 22 graduates.

Who funds Garden Time

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
American ForestsTree Equity and Career Pathways Initiatives; Training in Urban Forestry Practices To Address Labor Shortage and Support Urban Forest Canopy$75,000
The Rhode Island Foundation2022 Garden Time To Work & Green Reentry Job Training Programs$45,000
Greenbridge Family FoundationTo Support Formerly Incarcerated Individuals To Reenter Society$25,000
...and 5 more grants received

Personnel at Garden Time

NameTitleCompensation
Kate LacoutureExecutive Director / President
Katharine LacouturePast Executive Director / Director / President$43,680
Vera BowenPresident , Treasurer$0
Robert RafkaVice President / Director$0

Financials for Garden Time

RevenuesFYE 12/2023
Total grants, contributions, etc.$379,521
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$0
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$379,521

Form 990s for Garden Time

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2023-122024-06-25990View PDF
2022-122023-06-30990View PDF
2021-122022-09-13990EZView PDF
2020-122021-11-03990EZView PDF

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Data update history
May 18, 2024
Received grants
Identified 4 new grant, including a grant for $45,000 from The Rhode Island Foundation
December 24, 2023
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $15,000 from Burpee Foundation
August 25, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
June 28, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990EZ for fiscal year 2020
June 27, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 5 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
Crime and legal aid organizationsFamily service centersCharities
Issues
Human servicesCrime and lawRehabilitation for ex-offenders
Characteristics
Partially liquidatedFundraising eventsReceives government fundingTax deductible donationsNo full-time employeesAccepts online donations
General information
Address
286 Rochambeau Ave
Providence, RI 02906
Metro area
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
County
Providence County, RI
Website URL
gardentime.us/ 
Phone
(401) 996-4922
IRS details
EIN
90-1002432
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2013
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
I40: Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
NAICS code, primary
624190: Individual and Family Services
Parent/child status
Independent
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