California · Nonprofit
SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT
SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,104,554 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,006,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project does
Mission
Our mission is to create an urban agriculture and education project that empowers youth and adults to discover and participate in a local food system that encourages healthy living, nurtures the environment and grows a sustainable community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Urban farming:-developing and operating a permanently protected and publicly owned 55 acres urban farm and education center located in rancho cordova,california. Includes a variety of restored interpretive ecosystems including vegetable fields, orchards, gardens, creek, forest and grassland.-practices & models regenerative and certified organic food production for the small farmer and urban gardener.food access:-currently producing, gleaning and distributing over 200,000 pounds annually of healthy locally grown produce. Weekly production of lettuce fulfills 70% of demand for the school lunch program at sacramento city unified school district. An estimated 20,000 pounds of that food is strictly used for donation purposes for local food banks and food closets.-leadership role in the development and implementation of a six-county regional food system action plan in partnership with valley vision.-developed farmland access models with both public and private landowners.-developed the first certified farmers market in sacramento county thatdirectly serves low income residents and allows the use of ebt (food stamps)redemption.-lead agency for 10 year food access initiative in south…
$1,377,045 spent$792,147 earned by the program69% of program spendingYouth education:-providing service-based youth education & job training for pre-k through college age youth that delivers hands-on and standards-based education each year.this program has served over 120,000 youth in the last 20 years.-job training and workforce development activity through the development, management and ongoing training of young adult interns including teens, college students and california conservation corpsmembers in the areas of regenerative food production, natural ecosystems management, culinary arts, health & wellness, and delivery of nature based education.-runs a comprehensive school garden training program serving sacramento county region. Currently overseeing school garden programs at 10 best practice school sites and managing a network of training activities that support school gardens throughout sacramento county.-runs a comprehensive year-round field trip and summer camp program foryouth focused on hands-on skills building in food production, environmentalstewardship and healthy eating.-developed innovative and standards-based curriculum for all of our coreprogram components.-developed a set of youth operating and guiding principles that defines our…
$625,993 spent$153,485 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,003,038.
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.
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 $2.0M to $3.2M (+58%).
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: 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 (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $773k → $414k.
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 39% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 56% · 2021 60% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% — 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.
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
83% of SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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
SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,060 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,060 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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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 $5,104,554 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 $5,104,554 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.
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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 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing