Missouri · Nonprofit
The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields
The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,526 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($170,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $580k
- Net assets
- $-146078
What The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields does
Mission
The Urban Farming Guys exists to help establish sustainable communities in one of the most difficult places on earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The purpose of the Urban Farming Guys is to help develop sustainable communities in one of the most difficult places on earth. We are utilizing a holistic strategy including: 1.) developing local healthy food initiatives which includes participating in the research, development, education and implementation of sustainable urban agricultural practices; 2.) equipping, training, and mentoring youth, the disadvantaged, and immigrants from other countries in life and job skills by establishing small to medium size not-for-profit businesses; 3.) Researching, Developing Sustainable technologies that empower disadvantaged communities and sharing this information with the world 4.) mobilizing volunteers to do acts of kindness and compassion such as feeding the hungry, providing food, clothing, and shelter for the needy, offering medical and counseling services for the sick, and facilitating friendships for the lonely; 5.) becoming a reconciling force which brings together people of different generations, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Urban Farming Guys activities include: Establishing Inner-city Community Gardens, Building Model Sustainable Technologies, Inspiring…
$88,471 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,471.
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 2021 to 2022, from $738k to $514k (−30%).
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $121k → $84.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Farming Guys co Jason Fields’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 Farming Guys co Jason Fields leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 Farming Guys co Jason Fields.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 63% · 2019 73% · 2020 61% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
61% of The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields'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 $228k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k 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 Farming Guys co Jason Fields's revenue fell 93% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields?
- The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,526 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($170,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $579,526 in grants to The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $170,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Urban Farming Guys co Jason Fields find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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