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SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT

SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,073,828 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,006,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.2M
Revenue FY2025
34
Funders on record
$5.1M
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
25/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%

Against its field

SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($581k)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.8M) Expenses 101 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($579k)2020 Revenue 91 ($1.7M) Expenses 91 ($1.6M) Net assets 113 ($654k)2021 Revenue 85 ($1.6M) Expenses 89 ($1.6M) Net assets 113 ($655k)2022 Revenue 109 ($2.0M) Expenses 97 ($1.7M) Net assets 165 ($959k)2023 Revenue 107 ($2.0M) Expenses 102 ($1.8M) Net assets 194 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 122 ($2.2M) Expenses 120 ($2.1M) Net assets 217 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 174 ($3.2M) Expenses 141 ($2.5M) Net assets 414 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (141)Net assets (414)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 42% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% · 2024 29% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (15% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,613 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
18
$1k
19
$74k
20
$1k
21
$304k
22
$170k
23
$131k
24
$720k
25
3.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $773k → $395k.

8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)36% 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 SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT’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

SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT.

40%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 56% · 2021 60% · 2022 33% · 2023 40%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

50% of SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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

84% of SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
WI
RI
CA
MD
AZ
NC
TX
FL

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. $1.8M 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $462k on record.

Federal$462k
grants $462kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$462k

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 SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT?
SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,073,828 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,006,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,073,828 in grants to SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT?
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $2,006,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 34funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing