Laredo Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831656594
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Laredo, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9563077322
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- VIVIANA FRANK (INTERIM PRES)
- FEDERICO ELIZONDO (SECRETARY)
- ROBERTO GONZALEZ (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fulfilling quality of life and place goals and objectives of the viva laredo comprehensive plan: create and promote a scalable urban food system in laredo by increasing access to fresh, local food for all citizens, especially low-income residents, while developing economic opportunities in the food chain and system.
What it reported doing in 2025
Demonstration farm the lcuas organization has focused on creating and providing the people of laredo with a demonstration farm. The demonstration farm is maintained by volunteers daily and helps organic vegetation flourish. The demonstration farm is a perfect stepping stone for people to witness and experience the growth and harvest of different vegetation. This is a continuous joint effort with the city of laredo. Lcuas pumpkin patch the lcuas organization has created a yearly pumpkin patch event at the canseco house location. The public is invited to spend time at the public garden and harvest all types of pumpkins. Multiple vendors and performers are invited to help families have an unforgettable experience. One of the partners with this event is the bachelor's in organizational leadership program at laredo college. Urban farming workshop the lcuas organization has setup multiple urban farming workshops throughout the year. The purpose of this workshop is to provide people with knowledge on how to have a sustainable organic food system. The workshops introduce necessary skills such as soil prep, seed starting tips, and harvesting crops. Hybrid tomato project the lcuas organization is always looking for innovative methods to grow vegetation. The hybrid tomato project has provided positive results allowing for a better understanding of tomato harvesting. This is only the beginning as there are plenty more vegetables that can be studied. This is a collaboration between lcuas and Texas a&m agrilife extension. Farmer's market the lcuas organization has been a proud partner with the laredo famer's market for over 3 years. The organization provides freshly grown vegetation available to the public. Many people have provided their support to make this project successful every month. This is a cooperation with laredo main street.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 0 of 1 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.