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CUL2VATE

CUL2VATE (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,132 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($475,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.5M
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Cul2vate does

Mission

The organization grows nutritious food to donate to those who are food insecure, while also working to provide a fresh start at employment to those who are in need of a second chance.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The cul2vators program helps individuals in need of a second chance by training them in the gardens where the produce is grown as well as other valuable skills. In 2024 the organization grew 440,000 pounds of produce and donated 81% to alleviate hunger. The program graduated 10 and helped 4 cul2vators to find full time employment. The organization partnered with 3 other organizations to grow the produce used to help the hungry and they also had 2 new community gardens. Community engagement reached an all-time high as 67 volunteer groups contributed 5,123 hours of service on the farm.

    $1,007,700 spentof which $10,000 as grants$92,255 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,007,700.

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 ($477k) Expenses 100 ($334k) Net assets 100 ($219k)2018 Revenue 98 ($470k) Expenses 116 ($389k) Net assets 151 ($330k)2019 Revenue 92 ($439k) Expenses 135 ($450k) Net assets 145 ($317k)2020 Revenue 117 ($559k) Expenses 129 ($432k) Net assets 209 ($456k)2021 Revenue 186 ($889k) Expenses 153 ($512k) Net assets 383 ($837k)2022 Revenue 230 ($1.1M) Expenses 240 ($804k) Net assets 513 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 240 ($1.1M) Expenses 331 ($1.1M) Net assets 707 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 305 ($1.5M) Expenses 442 ($1.5M) Net assets 666 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (305)Expenses (442)Net assets (666)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+39%).

$219k
$330k
$319k
$508k
$838k
$1.1M
$1.6M
$1.5M
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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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 5% · 2021 3% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of CUL2VATE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$143k
’17
$80k
’18
−$12k
’19
$128k
’20
$377k
’21
$296k
’22
$39k
’23
−$25k
’24
6.7
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed9888810915
Joined·+2+2+0+3+5+2+6
No longer listed·3203330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $18k → $361k.

14 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 CUL2VATE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 funders by total. 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

CUL2VATE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 CUL2VATE.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 83% · 2019 62% · 2020 33% · 2021 29% · 2022 53% · 2023 32% — 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

50% of CUL2VATE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

98% of CUL2VATE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

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

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $699k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

CUL2VATE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CUL2VATE

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 27%Fundraising 5%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cul2vate Farm Store LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds CUL2VATE?
CUL2VATE (Tennessee) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,132 to it, the largest being TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION ($475,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CUL2VATE have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,425,132 in grants to CUL2VATE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CUL2VATE?
TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CUL2VATE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing