· Public charity
Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp
Aua transforms food access, local economies, community wellness, and climate resiliency in chicagoland, through policy advocacy, education and resources to safely grow medicine and food.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORSPACE | $25,000 |
| GETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP | $20,000 |
| CEDILLOS FRESH PRODUCE | $20,000 |
| WOOD ST COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| DUSABLE CITY BOTANICAL FARMS LLC | $20,000 |
| LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORG | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO PATCHWORK FARMS | $10,556 |
| MAMA MOORE REGENERATION CENTER NFP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| IYABO FARMS | $10,000 |
| SISTAS IN THE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +72% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NNEIGHBORSPACE2× · 2023–2025 · $87k · revenue +48%
- LVLittle Village Environmental Justice Org2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +74%
- RARUN A WAY BUCKERS CLUB INC2× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- FTFRESHER TOGETHERone grant, 2020 · $31k
- GFGODLY FARMING LLCone grant, 2024 · $22k
- UFURBAN FARMING INITIATIVEone grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
prove asset to organic food
We cultivate people through presence, soil, and shared work. The Neighborhood Garden Project exists to help individuals reconnect with identity, healing, and belonging by creating thoughtful spaces where people return to who they are…
The organization is committed to developing a sustainable community food system by bringing together diverse groups of people, with a focus on youth development, to establish community gardens, urban agriculture and community green spaces.…
The Grow Collective grows people, grows community, and grows a healthier planet. We offer wellness and skill building activities that enhance self-esteem, anchor self-worth, and empower individuals. We bring people together in safe spaces…
Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.
The Audubon Neighborhood Association ANA works to strengthen the quality of life and community resiliency for all in the Audubon Neighborhood by facilitating community engagement and relationships and helping all members of the…
Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…
We are a Community Garden; we teach people how to grow food organically and sustainably.
Brightside aims to increase access to healthy food in urban food deserts by delivering produce to small corner stores in under serviced areas. Support is garnered by home delivery customers who each week receive fresh produce and pay a…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEIGHBORSPACE ↗
- Who funds Little Village Environmental Justice Org ↗
- Who funds GETTING GROWN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED NFP ↗
- Who funds RUN A WAY BUCKERS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Wood St Collective ↗
- Who funds UN NUEVO DESPERTAR A NEW AWAKENING NFP ↗
- Who funds Resilience Partners NFP ↗
- Who funds JULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Forefront · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advocates for Urban Agriculture Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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