Urban Fresh Gardens Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872905372
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Waterbury, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8609400108
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,539
- Expenses
- $45,082
- Assets
- $30,202
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gregory Knight (President)
People named in this filing
- Gregory Knight (President)
- Tanisha Knight (Secretary)
- Fanny Marrone (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
Urban Fresh Gardens is a non-profit urban farm and education center dedicated to teaching tangible and intangible skills to youths ages 14 to 18. Program participants are provided with an opportunity to learn transferable life skills, contribute to their community, and form meaningful connections that can take them beyond the limits of the Greater Waterbury Community. Youth Development occurs in the following outreach areas: Urban Agriculture, Urban Community Projects, Learn-To-Earn Program, Urban Apprenticeship and Mentorship Program and English-Language Education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Urban Fresh Gardens' Learn to Earn Program was able to serve 15 individuals in 2024 with afterschool, summer and weekend jobs on a per diem basis in the urban garden. Individuals learned the basics of agriculture through the process of building garden beds, filling with soil and compost, planting various seeds, installing irrigation systems, weeding, harvesting and marketing farm harvest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. 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: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.6%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 25.4%; rating input score 25
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: 3.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -46.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.6% of revenue deployed · 25.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.