New Roots Urban Farm
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202306277
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4055194928
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,360
- Expenses
- $77,570
- Assets
- $51,579
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Aria (President)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Aria (President)
- Karen Carty (Treasurer)
- Felix Evans (Secretary)
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
New Roots Urban Farm is a nonprofit urban farm and community organization based in North St. Louis City, Missouri. The organization works to build a localized food system that increases access to fresh food, environmental education, and community resources. During 2025, the organization operated community-based urban agriculture programming including food production, volunteer engagement, youth and community education, and neighborhood greening activities. New Roots Urban Farm distributed fresh produce and agricultural resources to community members and supported hands-on learning opportunities related to farming, environmental stewardship, and food systems.
What it reported doing in 2025
Environmental Stewardship & Community Greening: New Roots Urban Farm conducted neighborhood greening and community beautification activities serving approximately 300 community members during 2025. Activities included cleaning up trash and illegal dumping, maintaining and activating vacant green spaces, and coordinating community-led beautification efforts in North St. Louis City. The program was designed to improve neighborhood environmental conditions, increase access to safe and usable green space, and strengthen community engagement through collective stewardship activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.3% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.