Utah · Nonprofit
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,739 to it, the largest being PALLADIUM FOUNDATION ($195,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $499k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $835k
- Net assets
- $406k
What Youth Garden Project does
Mission
Cultivating healthy children, families, and community through educational programs and connecting people with food from seed to table.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programs 892 elementary-aged children participated in in- and out-of-school garden-based learning programs at our 1.5-acre educational garden campus. Sixteen families received financial assistance for our summer camp program, which served a total of 68 children throughout the nine weeks of camp. 11,120 was provided in need-based tuition assistance. Ygp facilitated 36 garden classroom field trips which connected outdoor learning to utah core curriculum standards. Field trips welcomed each k-6 class (786 total students) in the grand county school district, plus each class at the moab charter school.
$158,207 spent$49,583 earned by the program51% of program spendingFood & garden programs 6,820 pounds of fresh produce were grown and distributed to households in moab. 31% of food grown was distributed to partnering food banks. Ygp hosted 11 volunteer 'weed n feed' nights, plus four additional free community events. Of these 15 total events, 12 included a no-cost, garden-fresh dinner. 20+ households were able to grow their own healthy food in ygp-managed community garden plots at two different sites. Ygp broke ground on a third community garden in partnership with moab city, which will prioritize mobility-friendly garden beds. 496 total volunteers (including 85 youth) participated in volunteerism at ygp.
$151,469 spent$44,107 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $309,676.
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 $139k to $222k (+60%).
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 8% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 6% · 2022 13% · 2023 10% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT’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 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 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $1k → $184k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
39% 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 YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 43% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
71% of YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $79k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$79k
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 YOUTH GARDEN 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH GARDEN 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 YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT?
- YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT (Utah) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,739 to it, the largest being PALLADIUM FOUNDATION ($195,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $834,739 in grants to YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT?
- PALLADIUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 32 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