Form 990 for tax year 2023

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 14 February 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$4,128,125 →changed to $4,344,942

Total expenses

$1,727,402 →changed to $1,811,138

Contributions and grants received

$4,021,378 →changed to $4,238,195

Total assets, end of year

$6,895,521 →changed to $7,108,971

Total liabilities, end of year

$280,583 →changed to $360,952

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$6,614,938 →changed to $6,748,019

Program services expenses

$1,268,549 →changed to $1,301,044

Management and general expenses

$354,666 →changed to $405,984

Fundraising expenses

$104,187 →changed to $104,110

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,268,549 →changed to $1,301,044

Totals

Total revenue

$4,128,125

Total expenses

$1,727,402

Contributions and grants received

$4,021,378

Grants paid

$2,000

Program service revenue

$72,141

Investment income

$33,275

Other revenue

$1,331

Total assets, end of year

$6,895,521

Total liabilities, end of year

$280,583

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$6,614,938

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,268,549

Management and general expenses

$354,666

Fundraising expenses

$104,187

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,268,549

Program services were 73.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Farm & Food Access - The food grown on our farm's fields, orchards, and prairies is distributed primarily in the Native community through: an affordable Indigenous Food Share (CSA model); a Farmers Market in Minneapolis; wholesale to Native chefs and restaurants; to youth and families at our programs and events; and through donations to our community partners. In recent years, we have increased production and donations, added a delivery option, developed nutrition education programming, and partnered to deliver fresh produce to youth and families in our community. In 2023, the farm grew over 26,000 pounds of food, including 9,500 pounds donated to the community. Our Indigenous Food Share (IFS) was reimagined from a traditional CSA model to a more focused approach - the shares are offered only to Native families and have various payment methods to reduce barriers in joining: sliding scale, payment plan, and work share options. We also introduced new opportunities in 2023 - all IFS members had access to our Reclaiming Lifeways and Adopting Plant Relatives programs, two additions to our IFS to help us grow even stronger connections with each other, our other-than-human relatives, and with our traditional foods. Events from these programs have included various traditional harvesting activities such as maple syrup making, stick-tobacco processing, and wild-rice parching. Through educational plant walks with our staff and native plant adoptions hosted at our farm in 2023, we raised and distributed over 2,000 native plants, going out to over 60 Native families, partnering organizations, and Tribal education programs at schools.

  Expenses $580,820 · Revenue $60,061

• Native Youth Education and Leadership - This program provides culturally-based lessons for youth, ages 8 to 18. The farm offers a safe and creative learning environment where they learn about regenerative gardening, healthy foods preparation and nutrition, and Native cultural traditions while gaining employment and leadership skills. Programming offers year-round leadership development where youth lead advocacy, outreach, and training through an Indigenous lens. The farm provides opportunities for our youth to develop the skills needed to succeed in school and as adults, including opportunities for paid internships and employment. Programs include: - Cora's Kids, ages 8 to 12, are given an introduction to work ethic and soft skills. - Garden Warriors, ages 13-18, learn about entrepreneurship and work ethic by working farm to market and represent DWH at a Farmer's Market in a neighborhood convenient for the Native community, earning a stipend that is supported with soft skills and financial literacy training. - Youth Leaders, ages 13 to 18, participate in year-round community advocacy and educational events where they gain experience in customer service through food demos with a community-based focus. - Youth Interns, ages 15 to 21, are employed at the farm during the summer and have increased responsibilities of mentoring younger youth. Further leadership growth is offered through internships and employment opportunities that support educational advancement and career skills.

  Expenses $392,266 · Revenue $3,040

• Network Leadership - Working with partners is vital to the success of our programs as we rely on the skills and expertise of other organizations to complement the work we do in our community. Our network building and coalition leadership work helps us influence long-term systems change in order to improve the overall health of the Native community. Dream of Wild Health is the lead organizer of the Indigenous Food Network (IFN), whose mission is to rebuild sovereign food systems within the intertribal urban Native community through collaboration. The long-term goals of the network include increasing access to healthier and more culturally-relevant foods for the Native community in Minneapolis, improving economic opportunity among Native food producers, chefs and restaurants, cultivating community connectedness, and changing the systems and policies that lead to continuing inequities.

  Expenses $280,813 · Revenue $3,040

• Farm & Food Access: the food grown at the farm is distributed primarily to the Native community through DWH programs, Indigenous food shares (CSA model), wholesale, and donations to partners. The farm recently grew from 10 to 30 acres and we are dreaming into the vision of the new land. DWH is a home to numerous and diverse Indigenous seeds through our Seed Stewardship program. Our goal is to ensure a diverse, viable seed stock for future generations, to grow seed as food to reconnect this generation to an Indigenous diet, to rematriate seeds to their Tribal homes, and to develop reliable paths of resource sharing to ensure the sustainability of this work into the future. Farm Expansion: In March 2020, with the generous support of our community and funders, DWH purchased an additional 20 acres of land on the same street as its existing 10-acre farm, totaling 30-acres of farmland. Expansion efforts include development of a rich, bio-diverse community of plant relatives and earthwork development to support future programming efforts. With ongoing capital support, this space will allow us to expand our growing capacity, create value-added products and provide more space for our community to learn and grow. To address land access within the community the future incubator training program will train Native farmers and food producers, and further expand educational and employment opportunities for our youth.

  Expenses $14,650

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

14 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202510159349302926

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