Nebraska · Nonprofit
BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC
BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,107 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($645,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Big Muddy Urban Farm Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to making sustainable agriculture education accessible to all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food Distribution Program - In cooperation with local grocery retailers Big Muddy facilities are utilized for weekly distribution of wholesome nutritious fresh produce that has been deemed unfit for retail sale to local residents in need providing assistance to hundreds of midtown residents. Our on-site farm manager grew and provided 1300 lbs. of additional fresh produce for distribution as well as coordinating volunteers and providing farm tours to interested local groups.
$22,643 spentof which $20,000 as grants67% of program spendingLocal and Refugee Farmers- In cooperation with Lutheran Family Services Big Muddy supports local and refugee women farmers in a collaborative farming format that develops participants community connections entrepreneurial skills and agricultural practices. Many vegetables that were grown were from refugee home of origin and used to supplement their food supplies. Our farm manager worked with growers resulting in excess production sent to farmers markets where the group had hundreds of Women Infant and Children and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program transactions along with many more farmers market sales and on-site distributions.
$11,322 spentof which $5,000 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,965.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $113k to $79k (−30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $105k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC?
- BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,107 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($645,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $701,107 in grants to BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $645,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing