Colorado · Nonprofit
THE URBAN FARM
THE URBAN FARM (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,927 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($162,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $692k
- Net assets
- $383k
What The Urban Farm does
Mission
To provide urban residents the opportunity to participate in agriculture by removing the barriers to entry such as land access, time, location and finances; and inspire excitement through practical experience while fostering respect, responsibility, curiosity, compassion and grit
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Urban Farm (tuf) provides an opportunity for urban youth to engage and participate in local and agricultural systems and farming by removing barriers to participation such as access to land, location and cost. Tuf delivers experiential programs in animal husbandry; organic gardening; environmental education; land conservation and equine. The goal of tuf programs is to provide practical and behavioral life skills for young adults. Our aspiration is to foster compassion and resilience in urban youth and inspire them to build sustainable, healthy, equitable communities. Tuf serves denver metro area residents through year-round programming, signature events, and general admission, all strengthened by our partnerships with local governments and with like-minded nonprofits. Farm to school: pre k-12 students enjoy field trips to the farm. Curriculum is aligned with educational standards in natural and social sciences. Through hands-on activities, students learn abount agriculture, livestock, food systems and horticulture. An estimated 20,000 students participated in the field trips. Tuf grows 13,000 lbs yearly of healthy produce that is then donated back to the community,…
$1,820,773 spent$625,774 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,820,773.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $275k to $522k (+90%).
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: 2017 47% · 2019 16% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% · 2024 44% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of THE URBAN FARM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Paige Heydon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $22k → $126k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 THE URBAN FARM’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
THE URBAN FARM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 THE URBAN FARM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 36% · 2019 62% · 2020 35% · 2021 28% · 2022 72% · 2023 56% — 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
45% of THE URBAN FARM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
53% of THE URBAN FARM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $322k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE URBAN FARM has grown faster than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE URBAN FARM
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 THE URBAN FARM: 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 THE URBAN FARM?
- THE URBAN FARM (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,927 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($162,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE URBAN FARM have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $691,927 in grants to THE URBAN FARM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE URBAN FARM?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $162,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE URBAN FARM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 24 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