Missouri · Nonprofit
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,310,434 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($992,556). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $725k
What Cultivate Kansas City Inc does
Mission
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Juniper gardens training farm operates the new roots for refugees program in partnership with catholic charities of ne kansas. Cultivate kc provides land, infrastructure and development support to help refugee families start and run their own small farm businesses. Cultivate kc manages community gardens on site and provides knowledge and technical support to other nearby gardens and farms. Each year, 16-17 participants and their families are trained. By increasing farmers, vegetable farms, and healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, the training farm helps to change the environmental context to make healthy fruits and vegetables readily available for residents of these communities.
$476,114 spent$16,245 earned by the program33% of program spendingFood access program - food access is an innovative, dollar-for-dollar nutrition assistance matching program helping over 2,500 low-income households access to healthy fruits and vegetables. The program provides an incentive match for the supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) and supplemental dollars to the senior farmers market nutrition program (sfmnp).
$412,345 spentof which $170,930 as grants$6,050 earned by the program29% of program spendingMetro farms & food systems - metro farms & food systems helps develop urban farms and community-based food projects through technical assistance, growers network development, collaborative projects and policy/system change.
$392,501 spentof which $56,000 as grants$25,551 earned by the program27% of program spendingWestport common farms: ther farm continues to grow into a food and farming education hub as well as a resource center for community growers, students, businesses and volunteers from all around the city connect with their food and with each other.
$165,411 spent$5,193 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,446,371.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $640k to $979k (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 29% · 2020 39% · 2021 39% · 2022 43% · 2023 55% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Brien Darby
Executive director
Board chair
Nathan Young
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $354k → $177k.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 49% · 2019 47% · 2020 53% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 17% — 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
52% of CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.2M
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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY 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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC?
- CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC (Missouri) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,310,434 to it, the largest being HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ($992,556). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,310,434 in grants to CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC?
- HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $992,556 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 43 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