Illinois · Nonprofit
NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE
NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,043 to it, the largest being FOREFRONT ($94,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $179k
- Net assets
- $127k
What North Lawndale Greening Committee does
Mission
Our primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational in nature. The North Lawndale Greening Committee provide beautification services to the residents of North Lawndale in Chicago through its care of 21 community garden spaces. We also grow nutrient dense food in 23 urban gardens, including one farm, for the benefit of our residents. Currently, we give away 100 percent of the food we grow to those who need it in our communities. Our Garden to Table program also rescues food from restaurants, grocery stores, and other programs and gives away approximately 240,000 pounds of food a year in our community. We provide soil testing, soil prescriptions, and training for gardeners/growers throughout the Chicagoland area. The Good Food Purchasing Program supports our urban agriculture program and our controlled environment agriculture program (a hydroponic farm). This support included supplies for our hydroponic farm, seeds, equipment, infrastructure, and salary support for our employees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Garden 2 Table Pipeline
$25,267 spentof which $74,000 as grants71% of program spendingFeeding People (Snap Benefits
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$3,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,722.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $105k to $170k (+63%).
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.
100% of NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $94k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE’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
NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
97% of NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE: 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 NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE?
- NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,043 to it, the largest being FOREFRONT ($94,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $179,043 in grants to NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE?
- FOREFRONT is the largest funder on record, with $94,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH LAWNDALE GREENING COMMITTEE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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