Michigan · Nonprofit
URBAN FARMING
URBAN FARMING (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,339 to it, the largest being CGLC Charitable Trust ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $-23892
What Urban Farming does
Mission
Urban Farming is non-partisan and non-denominational. The Urban Farming mission is to Create an Abundance of Food for All in Our Generation by supporting and encouraging the establishment of organic gardens on unused land and space, while raising awareness about healthy principles. We work with youth, adults, and seniors, and our gardens and healthy principles help to create economically vibrant systems that uplift communities around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In April of 2025, The Urban Farming Free Plant Giveaway Program in Los Angeles, California gave to a total of 180 residents the following: 4,080 organic vegetable plants. This project impacted a total of 580 people including families and seniors.
$4,800 spent21% of program spendingIn May of 2025, The Urban Farming Free Plant Giveaway Program in Detroit, Michigan gave to a total of 300 residents the following: 8,400 organic vegetable plants, 100 packs of organic seeds, and 1,250 educational handouts. This project impacted a total of 600 people including families and seniors in Detroit and surrounding areas.
$5,765 spent25% of program spendingIn the Spring of 2025, Urban Farming Garden Support Program facilitated building of a greenhouse at the Fountain Community Garden in Los Angeles, along with Home Depot.
$3,500 spent15% of program spendingUrban Farming Food Donation Program prepped, planted, maintained, harvested and donated 1/2 ton of food this year. The food was donated to The River Park Senior Apartments and Highland Towers Senior Apartments. The site was also utilized for educational learning outlets.
$7,276 spent31% of program spendingUrban Farming Marketing Program launched a new website in 2025. The new site is streamlined and full of 20 years of content. The Urban Farming social media folks provided weekly posts as well as website news updates.
$1,900 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,241.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1k to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of URBAN FARMING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Michael Rich
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $63k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 FARMING’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
URBAN FARMING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 FARMING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
URBAN FARMING draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
URBAN FARMING's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN FARMING
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 FARMING: 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 FARMING?
- URBAN FARMING (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,339 to it, the largest being CGLC Charitable Trust ($155,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN FARMING have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $235,339 in grants to URBAN FARMING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN FARMING?
- CGLC Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN FARMING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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