Minnesota · Nonprofit
URBAN ROOTS MN
URBAN ROOTS MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,604,793 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($455,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $507k
What Urban Roots Mn does
Mission
Urban roots is a saint paul organization whose mission is to cultivate and empower youth through nature, healthy food, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Market garden program:served 25 youth in paid, job training internships and grew 13,500 pounds of produce on our 5 urban farm sites. Cook fresh program:served 20 youth in paid, job training internships and created a cook book that will be published in 2026 highlighting youth, staff and communtiy member food stories. Also served 1,280 meals to community members. See schedule o for additional program language.conservation:served 37 youth in paid job training internships and planted 4,320 plants over 278 acres of parkland in saint paul.
$1,719,555 spent$131,974 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,719,555.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $780k (−38%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Hayley Ball
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $98k → $682k.
9 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 MN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
33% 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 MN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 75% · 2019 33% · 2020 16% · 2021 22% · 2022 18% · 2023 18% — 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
62% of URBAN ROOTS MN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
85% of URBAN ROOTS MN's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $646k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding URBAN ROOTS MN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $151k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$151k
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 MN
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 MN: 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 MN?
- URBAN ROOTS MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,604,793 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($455,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does URBAN ROOTS MN have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,604,793 in grants to URBAN ROOTS MN, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN ROOTS MN?
- CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $455,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN ROOTS MN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing