Growing Real Opportunities to Work-Harvest of Urban Business
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811084001
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3522628484
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $456,118
- Expenses
- $369,584
- Assets
- $130,038
- Liabilities
- $1,179
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kim Kazimour (President)
People named in this filing
- David Banes (Director)
- Kim Kazimour (President)
- Jan Benet (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide work training and occupational opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities in the fileds of agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, and related occupations through the use of volunteer trainers and other local agency resources with the goal of trainees finding paid employment in related occupations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provision of job exploration and occupational experiences for approximately 50 client/trainees who participated in 2020 activities: growing plants and produce, creating related arts and crafts for sale, and performing related occupational duties. Training is provided in agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, and related fields. Training is provided to the clients by volunteers from the community and job support agencies who collaborate on-site. Client trainees also participate in training in repair and maintenance of buildings, greenhouses, growing plots, and equipment used for training and perform selected duties for maintenance, repair, and expansion under supervision of volunteers and contracted staff. Use of website, social media, flyers, brochures, signage, and other displays were enhanced and expanded to receuit clients/trainees, volunteers, and donations. Social media was used for increased fundraising. Major supporters continued donations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $86.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $348K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.