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GROWGOOD INC

GROWGOOD INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,517,464 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ($200,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$422k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$595k
16/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Growgood Inc does

Mission

Growgood is a los angeles based non-profit creating urban agricultural programs to empower people and transform communities. We believe in the power of food to unite people and to lay foundations for healthy communities through food distribution, wellness offerings, and jobs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Food distribution: donating weekly harvests to the salvation army's bell shelter and neighboring permanent supportive housing residents, we directly provide organically-grown, nutrient-dense produce to over 4,000 unique individuals each year. We also distributed produce through our mobile pop-up market providing affordable access to local and organic produce in low-income communities.

    $312,465 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Wellness programming: on a weekly basis, the food for life program was hosted in our outdoor therapy space , twice weekly, sessions that are required for the bell shelter wellness participants. Through this program we taught 250 unique individuals, and on average there were 30 participants in each class.

  3. Workforce development: we operate an on-the-job training program in urban agriculture for individuals with barriers to employment. Individuals are referred to the program from case managers at the bell shelter and other social service organizations.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,465.

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 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($222k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2018 Revenue 247 ($503k) Expenses 143 ($318k) Net assets 248 ($309k)2019 Revenue 171 ($348k) Expenses 156 ($347k) Net assets 249 ($310k)2020 Revenue 27 ($55k) Expenses 54 ($119k) Net assets 198 ($246k)2021 Revenue 133 ($270k) Expenses 71 ($157k) Net assets 288 ($359k)2022 Revenue 184 ($374k) Expenses 122 ($271k) Net assets 371 ($463k)2023 Revenue 174 ($354k) Expenses 171 ($380k) Net assets 350 ($436k)2024 Revenue 399 ($813k) Expenses 230 ($510k) Net assets 593 ($739k)2025 Revenue 207 ($422k) Expenses 255 ($566k) Net assets 478 ($595k)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (255)Net assets (478)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 2023 to 2024, from $436k to $739k (+69%).

$125k
$328k
$323k
$246k
$359k
$463k
$436k
$739k
$595k
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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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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 46% · 2024 55% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GROWGOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
$185k
’18
$731
’19
−$64k
’20
$113k
’21
$104k
’22
−$26k
’23
$303k
’24
−$144k
’25
9.9
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.

Board chair

Bradley Pregerson

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed5865581113
Joined·+3+0·+0+3+7+3
No longer listed·02·0041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $85k → $278k.

9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GROWGOOD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

GROWGOOD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

68% 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 GROWGOOD INC.

13%
largest funder
38%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 59% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 25% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.

“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

6% of GROWGOOD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of GROWGOOD INC's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GROWGOOD INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROWGOOD INC?
GROWGOOD INC (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,517,464 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC ($200,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROWGOOD INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,517,464 in grants to GROWGOOD INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROWGOOD INC?
COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROWGOOD INC 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.

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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 34 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