Nevada · Nonprofit
URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS
URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS (Nevada) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,346,941 to it, the largest being Renown Health ($361,192). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $827k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $670k
What Urban Roots Garden Classrooms does
Mission
Urban roots is mission driven to grow healthy minds, bodies, and communities through garden-based education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School year programming:urban roots uses gardening as a lens for teaching lessons that bolster academic achievement, increase healthy behaviors, inspire environmental consciousness, and cultivate a spirit for community service. During the washoe county school district school year. Urban roots hosted 684 campers at our farm camp, taught 226 preschoolers, hosted 1,722 students on field trips, taught 412 community memers at gardening cooking workshops, and taught 219 homeschoolers. Built 37 raised garden beds for 5 residences, 2 schools and one non-profit.
$248,084 spent$247,502 earned by the program70% of program spendingUrban roots planted, tended, harvested, and provided 898 pounds of produce to our community and produced 50pounds of honey. Grown at the urban teaching farm, our fresh, locally grown produce was a source of nutrient-dense resources.
$106,321 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $354,405.
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 2018 to 2019, from $106k to $304k (+188%).
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: 2017 30% · 2020 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $234k → $156k.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 75% · 2019 62% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 22% — 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
21% of URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
80% of URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$75k
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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: 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 ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS?
- URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS (Nevada) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,346,941 to it, the largest being Renown Health ($361,192). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,346,941 in grants to URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS?
- Renown Health is the largest funder on record, with $361,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 39 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