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Denver Urban Gardens

DENVER URBAN GARDENS' (dug) mission is to provide access, skills, and resources for people to grow healthy food in community and regenerate urban green spaces.

$823k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$641,950
Largest grant, FY2024
$641,950
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Denver Urban Gardens funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$823k0%
FY20232$257k100%
FY20202$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wedontwaste Inc$830,63023%
Slow Food Co-Denver$249,147235%
Metro Caring$6,09810%
Montbello Organizing Committee$5,05710%

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About Denver Urban Gardens

How much does Denver Urban Gardens give?
Denver Urban Gardens reported 2 grants totaling $823,043 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Denver Urban Gardens fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Denver Urban Gardens's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Wedontwaste Inc ($831k), Slow Food Co-Denver ($249k), Metro Caring ($6k).
Does Denver Urban Gardens fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Denver Urban Gardens based?
Denver Urban Gardens is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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