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OKO URBAN FARMS INC

OKO URBAN FARMS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,945 to it, the largest being Pincus Family Foundation ($241,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$410k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$449k
Net assets
$67k
3/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Oko Urban Farms Inc does

Mission

Oko farms mission is to promote aquaponics as an ecological farming method that mitigates the impact of climate change and increases food security for urban residents while demstifying aquaponics through awareness and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 850 lbs of farm produce donated during the year.

    $107,743 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. 1500 people engaged through farm tours and workshops

    $107,743 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. 4 local youth participated in a paid training program

    $107,743 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,229.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2022 Revenue 143 ($148k) Expenses 152 ($110k) Net assets 145 ($121k)2023 Revenue 246 ($255k) Expenses 373 ($270k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 509 ($528k) Expenses 692 ($501k) Net assets 146 ($122k)2025 Revenue 395 ($410k) Expenses 642 ($465k) Net assets 80 ($67k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (395)Expenses (642)Net assets (80)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 2024 to 2025, from $136k to $84k (−38%).

$83k
$121k
$105k
$136k
$84k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 0% · 2024 36% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

102% of OKO URBAN FARMS INC’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’21
$38k
’22
−$15k
’23
$27k
’24
−$55k
’25
1.0
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.

Chief executive

Oluyemi O Amu

Executive director

Board chair

Lisa Boyd

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed155
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $27k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 OKO URBAN FARMS INC’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

OKO URBAN FARMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

30% 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 OKO URBAN FARMS INC.

54%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 67% · 2022 48% · 2023 55% — 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

40% of OKO URBAN FARMS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

OKO URBAN FARMS INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.

IL
NY
CT
CA
DE
TX
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

OKO URBAN FARMS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding OKO URBAN FARMS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $375k on record.

Federal$375k
grants $375kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$375k

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 OKO URBAN FARMS INC

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%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

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds OKO URBAN FARMS INC?
OKO URBAN FARMS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,945 to it, the largest being Pincus Family Foundation ($241,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OKO URBAN FARMS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $448,945 in grants to OKO URBAN FARMS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OKO URBAN FARMS INC?
Pincus Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $241,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OKO URBAN FARMS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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