New Jersey · Nonprofit
URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE
URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,345,175 to it, the largest being GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ($808,563). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $244k
What Urban Agriculture Cooperative does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Urban Agricultural Cooperative is to provide urban farmers with technical assistance on how to grow and market nutritional organic produce. The Organization also recruits and helps new urban farmers to locate areas to set up their farms, provide technical assistance, provide supplies and tools where needed and to monitor their progress.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2022, Urban Agriculture Cooperative supported over thirty (30) Farmer's Markets as well as a variety of wholesle orders of locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers. We also consulted with various urban farmers to improve their businesses. In total we sold $149,000 of grown produce to community schools, non-proit organizations, residents and food pantries.
$1,542,631 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,542,631.
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 $128k to $326k (+156%).
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: 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Emilio S Panasci
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $40k → $60k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 38% · 2021 75% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
78% of URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- FEDERAL$80k
- GRANT IN AID$20k
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 URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE: 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 URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE?
- URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE (New Jersey) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,345,175 to it, the largest being GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ($808,563). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,345,175 in grants to URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE?
- GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC is the largest funder on record, with $808,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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