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COMMUNITY CROPS

COMMUNITY CROPS (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,983 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($143,148). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$443k
Net assets
$12k
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Community Crops does

Mission

Community Crops (combining resources, opportunities, and people for sustainability) helps people work together to grow healthy food and live sustainably.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Community Crops operates community gardens, farms, greenhouses, and free educational classes to help people grow and enjoy healthy, local food.

    $95 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($408k) Expenses 100 ($416k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2018 Revenue 66 ($268k) Expenses 78 ($323k) Net assets -9 ($-4424)2019 Revenue 74 ($301k) Expenses 56 ($233k) Net assets 126 ($63k)2020 Revenue 87 ($356k) Expenses 83 ($343k) Net assets 151 ($76k)2021 Revenue 72 ($295k) Expenses 90 ($372k) Net assets -3 ($-1534)2022 Revenue 83 ($337k) Expenses 74 ($307k) Net assets 56 ($28k)2024 Revenue 1 ($6k) Expenses 2 ($10k) Net assets 24 ($12k)
2017201820192020202120222024
Revenue (1)Expenses (2)Net assets (24)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $148k to $52k (−65%).

$148k
$52k
$89k
$99k
$41k
$62k
$35k
2017201820192020202120222024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2018 24% · 2019 10% · 2020 44% · 2021 26% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

50% of COMMUNITY CROPS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
−$55k
’18
$68k
’19
$13k
’20
−$77k
’21
$30k
’22
−$4k
’24
1.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Megan Mcguffey

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

201720182019202020212022
Listed151514161517
Joined·+4+1+10+0+5
No longer listed·42813
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $94k → $20k.

2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 COMMUNITY CROPS’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

COMMUNITY CROPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMUNITY CROPS.

32%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 54% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.

“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

25% of COMMUNITY CROPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of COMMUNITY CROPS's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

CA
NE
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY CROPS's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−76% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−46% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Government funding COMMUNITY CROPS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $435k on record.

Federal$435k
grants $435kcontracts $0
19
21
22
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$435k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like COMMUNITY CROPS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY CROPS: 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 COMMUNITY CROPS?
COMMUNITY CROPS (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $442,983 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($143,148). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY CROPS have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $442,983 in grants to COMMUNITY CROPS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CROPS?
Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $143,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY CROPS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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