Illinois · Nonprofit
WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT
WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,256 to it, the largest being FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TRUST DATED 7947 ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $9k
What We Sow We Grow Project does
Mission
The We Sow We Grow Project is dedicated to the furtherance of gardening and farming in an urban landscape through education and service. Fresh fruits and vegetables are possible to grow for all and we seek to remove the fear and reservations of growing your own food through community-powered assistance in an urban ag safe space. Through work on our urban farm, volunteers will learn how to grow their own food while identifying problems that may arise and how to troubleshoot them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Urban Farm Operations, Farm Tools, Raised Bed Materials, Soil, Soil Amendments, Water, Weed Fabric, and Farm Materials. Gardening Classes, farm organization, remediation.
$116,106 spentof which $116,106 as grants100% of program spendingn/a
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$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,106.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $238k to $76k (−68%).
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.
48% of WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 4 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
Natasha Taylor
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $96 → $25k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT’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
WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT'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 WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT
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.
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 WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT: 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 WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT?
- WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,256 to it, the largest being FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TRUST DATED 7947 ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,256 in grants to WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT?
- FREDERICK HENRY PRINCE TRUST DATED 7947 is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE SOW WE GROW PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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