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DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM

DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,746 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$67k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
$22k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Duluth Community Garden Program does

Mission

To provide garden space for limited income families to grow their own food.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Garden space - we provide over 200 community garden plots at 22 different sites throughout duluth, for individuals and families to grow their own vegetables. We maintain garden infrastructure and manage plot sign-ups. One garden site is gardened collectively and managed by dgcp staff. Staff also maintain giving garden sites with produce available for anyone to harvest.

    $41,136 spent
    96% of program spending
  2. Education - we educate our gardeners and the public in all aspects of gardening - from gardening preparation to food preservation. Our volunteer garden site coordinators mentor gardeners as needed.

    $906 spent
    2% of program spending
  3. One vegetable one community - food literacy initiative that raises awareness of fresh, healthy food access through gardening and cooking outreach activities focused around celebrating the vegetable of the year.

    $906 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Tools & equipment - we provide garden tools and food processing/preservation equipment free of charge to our gardeners and memebers.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,948.

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 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2018 Revenue 91 ($100k) Expenses 95 ($102k) Net assets 97 ($46k)2019 Revenue 81 ($89k) Expenses 76 ($81k) Net assets 113 ($54k)2020 Revenue 84 ($93k) Expenses 84 ($90k) Net assets 119 ($57k)2021 Revenue 94 ($104k) Expenses 114 ($122k) Net assets 81 ($39k)2022 Revenue 109 ($119k) Expenses 117 ($125k) Net assets 70 ($33k)2023 Revenue 96 ($105k) Expenses 113 ($121k) Net assets 37 ($18k)2024 Revenue 61 ($67k) Expenses 47 ($51k) Net assets 47 ($22k)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (47)Net assets (47)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 2021 to 2022, from $59k to $34k (−42%).

$65k
$65k
$55k
$58k
$59k
$34k
$18k
$22k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
−$1k
’18
$8k
’19
$3k
’20
−$18k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$16k
’23
$16k
’24

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Haley Diem

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $32k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM’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

DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

57% 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 DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM.

41%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 99% · 2020 59% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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

33% of DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
DE

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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

DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM?
DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,746 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $159,746 in grants to DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM?
LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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