New Jersey · Nonprofit
GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC
GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $791,943 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($137,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $792k
- Net assets
- $563k
What Grow It Green Morristown Inc does
Mission
To promote community health through urban agriculture, discovery-based learning, and equitable food access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided a facility at three sites that enabled learning opportunities in urban agriculture. Implemented farm practices that reduced carbon footprint, water usage, and provided new varieties of bountiful fresh food. Over 200 inddividuals and families benefited from this program.
$432,055 spent$126,050 earned by the program100% of program spendingEarly Street Community Gardens. This program is designed to provide gardens and welcoming green spaces to community and neighboring residents as well as students, seniors and others who are interested in urban agriculture. The goal is to create sustainable public spaces that encourage pollinators and prevent storm water damage. To achieve this goal, we expanded space by pushing back fences and the parking space which we hope will encourage others to utilize the space and gain knowledge of the health benefits of green spaces and fresh food.
Greenhouse Operations and Winter Farmers Market. The Greenhouse Operatons Program offers educational classes, internships, and volunteer opportunities for students. The program, located at St. Elizabeth University, has started vegetable, flower and herb seedlings for our urban farm. Garderners and well as community members have the opportunity to increase local food production that enhances the mental and physical benefits of gardening and offers a means to grow food during these inflationary times. Winter Farmers Market We expanded the space for our 12th annual Winter Farmers Market which provided more convenient and accessible space for more than 50 vendors.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $432,055.
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 2020 to 2021, from $366k to $538k (+47%).
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 15% · 2018 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Shaun Ananko
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $29k → $142k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
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 GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 73% · 2019 64% · 2020 34% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 25% — 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
67% of GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
92% of GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$13k
- GRANT IN AID$7k
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 GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN 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 New Jersey
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
64%
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 GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN 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 GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC?
- GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $791,943 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($137,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $791,943 in grants to GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $137,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW IT GREEN MORRISTOWN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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