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URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC

URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,264,243 to it, the largest being MARGOT & THOMAS PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,907,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.7M
Revenue FY2024
103
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
41/103 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%

Against its field

URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($885k) Expenses 100 ($644k) Net assets 100 ($268k)2019 Revenue 109 ($963k) Expenses 143 ($918k) Net assets 239 ($640k)2020 Revenue 407 ($3.6M) Expenses 248 ($1.6M) Net assets 988 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 501 ($4.4M) Expenses 323 ($2.1M) Net assets 1870 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 423 ($3.7M) Expenses 463 ($3.0M) Net assets 2154 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 322 ($2.9M) Expenses 618 ($4.0M) Net assets 1734 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 531 ($4.7M) Expenses 672 ($4.3M) Net assets 1875 ($5.0M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (531)Expenses (672)Net assets (1875)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$242k
18
$45k
19
$2.0M
20
$2.4M
21
$761k
22
$1.1M
23
$377k
24
8.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 103 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 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

56% 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.

12%
largest funder
34%
top three
~16
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

63% of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 103 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$1.6M
grants $1.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 22%Fundraising 9%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC?
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,264,243 to it, the largest being MARGOT & THOMAS PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,907,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $15,264,243 in grants to URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC?
MARGOT & THOMAS PRITZKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,907,000 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.

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 103funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing