The Urban Farming Guys Co Jason Fields
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454946198
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 9137323554
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,880
- Expenses
- $38,819
- Assets
- $396,402
- Liabilities
- $542,480
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Fields (President)
People named in this filing
- Jason Fields (President)
- michele mayo (Secretary)
- david woodrum (Board Member)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Urban Farming Guys exists to help establish sustainable communities in one of the most difficult places on earth.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of the Urban Farming Guys is to help develop sustainable communities in one of the most difficult places on earth. We are utilizing a holistic strategy including: 1.) developing local healthy food initiatives which includes participating in the research, development, education and implementation of sustainable urban agricultural practices; 2.) equipping, training, and mentoring youth, the disadvantaged, and immigrants from other countries in life and job skills by establishing small to medium size not-for-profit businesses; 3.) Researching, Developing Sustainable technologies that empower disadvantaged communities and sharing this information with the world 4.) mobilizing volunteers to do acts of kindness and compassion such as feeding the hungry, providing food, clothing, and shelter for the needy, offering medical and counseling services for the sick, and facilitating friendships for the lonely; 5.) becoming a reconciling force which brings together people of different generations, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Urban Farming Guys activities include: Establishing Inner-city Community Gardens, Building Model Sustainable Technologies, Inspiring Relocation, Foreign Activities: Empowering Poor Villages with Sustainable Technology such as 2012 Aquaponics India, Neighborhood Outreach and Training, job creation and internships.
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
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.9%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -130%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.21; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.37; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.9% of revenue deployed · 9.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.