Illinois · Nonprofit
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,303,798 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($2,250,083). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Urban Growers Collective Inc does
Mission
Urban growers collective's work aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, ugc cultivates nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Urban growers collective operates eight urban farms, totalling 11 acres of land, primarily located on the south side of chicago, a 30-acre peri-urban farm in chicago heights established in 2024, and is a strategic partner in the 9-acre green era campus renewable energy facility and hub for urban agriculture in auburn gresham. These farms are production-oriented with staff integrating education, training, leadership development, and food distribution goals. Each farm utilizes organic growing methods and intensive growing practices that maximize space and year-round production strategies.
$2,988,581 spentof which $9,692 as grants$396,895 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,988,581.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $5.2M (+79%).
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 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 19% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC’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 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.4M.
16 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 19% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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
19% of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
58% of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.6M
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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: 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 GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC?
- URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,303,798 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($2,250,083). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $16,303,798 in grants to URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 104 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