Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth

Private foundation Lincoln, MA EIN: 88-2505968

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth is a private foundation focused on Environment & Animals, based in Lincoln, MA. IRS filing data is available from 2022 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $32K in total assets. In 2025, it made $132K in qualifying distributions.

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth at a glance

Total assets
$31,930
+73.5% vs 2024
Revenue (2025)
$176,497
-3.8% vs 2024
Qualifying distributions (2025)
$131,984
-25.6% vs 2024
Expenses (2025)
$132,419
-25.8% vs 2024
Latest 990 filing
Form 990-PF, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990-PF, 2025; updated October 2026.

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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesQualifying DistributionsDistributable Amount
2025$31,930$176,497$132,419$131,984$364
2024$18,399$183,464$178,343$177,402$724
2023$13,278$130,096$152,228$151,557$730
2022$35,410$196,499$161,089$160,675$1,025

Under IRS private-foundation payout rules, Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth reported a distributable amount of $364 for 2025 — the minimum it must pay out in qualifying distributions.

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth is led by Arline Sutherland, Trustee on every filing since 2022 — the only officer listed, and uncompensated.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Arline Sutherland

    Trustee

    On filings since 2022

    18 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2022–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Frequently asked questions about Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth

How large is Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth?

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth reported $32K in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990-PF. It paid out $132K in qualifying distributions that year, against a required minimum of $364 (roughly 5% of its investment assets).

What is Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth?

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth is a private foundation focused on Environment & Animals, based in Lincoln, MA. It holds $32K in total assets as of 2025.

What is Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth's EIN?

Tending Your Yard Tending the Earth's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 88-2505968. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2022–2025.

Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990-PF filings.

Data update history

(2)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Added Form 990-PF for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS August 21, 2026)
  2. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2022–2024

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