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Eco Urban Gardens

Eco Urban Gardens (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,716 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$188k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$390k
Net assets
$174k
6/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Eco Urban Gardens does

Mission

To build school gardens and promote the joy of growing, harvesting, preparing, and eating simple whole foods.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Weekend volunteer workshops held at the Farm Lab gardens included activities such as: a) planting a lavender knoll, b) sheet mulching, c) installing a green wall, d) weeding, seeding, planting veggies, pruning shrubs, trail restoration, in-ground bed plant cultivation, orchard care, harvesting herbs, fruits, and veggies, e) harvesting edible flowers used for pantry and school cafeteria. Workshops also taught volunteers skills like seeding, transplanting, invasive species removal, organic pest control, water capture for low water gardens and and composting. Each workshop or volunteer day hosts between 25-65 people depending on the event. Also weekend workshops open to all ages

    $98,327 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,327.

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 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 213 ($159k) Expenses 161 ($122k) Net assets 427 ($48k)2019 Revenue 208 ($155k) Expenses 167 ($127k) Net assets 680 ($76k)2020 Revenue 89 ($66k) Expenses 110 ($84k) Net assets 524 ($59k)2021 Revenue 297 ($222k) Expenses 158 ($120k) Net assets 2031 ($227k)2022 Revenue 227 ($169k) Expenses 208 ($158k) Net assets 1542 ($172k)2023 Revenue 82 ($61k) Expenses 152 ($115k) Net assets 1061 ($119k)2024 Revenue 252 ($188k) Expenses 175 ($133k) Net assets 1558 ($174k)
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Revenue (252)Expenses (175)Net assets (1558)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 2020 to 2021, from $127k to $228k (+80%).

$11k
$48k
$76k
$127k
$228k
$241k
$181k
$233k
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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

100% of Eco Urban Gardens’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
$37k
’18
$28k
’19
−$17k
’20
$102k
’21
$11k
’22
−$54k
’23
$55k
’24
21
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.

2021202220232024
Listed4444
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $8k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Eco Urban Gardens’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

Eco Urban Gardens has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

62% 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 Eco Urban Gardens.

26%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 82% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

14% of Eco Urban Gardens's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

71% of Eco Urban Gardens's grant income comes from California funders.

RI
CA
MD
DE

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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

Eco Urban Gardens runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Eco Urban Gardens

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eco Urban Gardens: 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 Eco Urban Gardens?
Eco Urban Gardens (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,716 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Eco Urban Gardens have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $389,716 in grants to Eco Urban Gardens, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Eco Urban Gardens?
COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Eco Urban Gardens find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 13 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