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TENDING THE SOIL MN

EIN 88-2935196 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2024
$1,330,506
Expenses 2024
$1,750,111

Program services were 87.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S21
Classification
1000
Street
3715 CHICAGO AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

7 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TOGETHER, WE FORGE A NEW PATH FORWARD, ROOTED IN RACIAL, ECONOMIC AND GENDER JUSTICE THAT UNITES US, FINDING OPPORTUNITIES TO ALIGN IN OUR OPERATIONS AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

  • TENDING THE SOIL IS AN ALIGNMENT OF FIVE, POWER BUILDING NON-PROFITS AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING MORE THAN 10,000 MINNESOTANS LED BY WORKING CLASS, BIPOC COMMUNITY LEADERS WITH A LONG HISTORY OF EFFECTIVE AND EQUITABLE ORGANIZING. WE WORKED WITH THESE FIVE GROUPS TO ALIGN THEIR CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES AROUND A SHARED TIMELINE TO HAVE THE BEST POSSIBLE IMPACT FOR THEIR MEMBERS.

    Expenses $1,526,877 · Grants $378,000

  • A MAJOR PROJECT THAT RECIEVED GREAT ATTENTION AND ADVANCEMENT IS OUR EFFORT TO BUILD THE RISE UP CENTER, A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CENTER, COMMUNITY GATHER SPACE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE HUB. SINCE JANUARY 1, 2023 TENDING THE SOIL MN AND OUR PROJECT PARTNERS HAVE DEFINED THE SCOPE OF THE RISE UP CENTER BUILDING USE, GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND ENTERED A PURCHASE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE THE FORMER YWCA UPTOWN AT, 2808 HENNEPIN AVE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

  • THROUGH 2023, TENDING THE SOIL TRAINED AND FOSTERED LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AMONG STAFF AND MEMBERS AT OUR FIVE ALIGMENT ORGANIZATIONS.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rod Adams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jen Arnold

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sara Lopez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emilia Gonzalez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cat Salonek Schladt

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $102,464
    From this org
    $94,760
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,704
    Hours/week
    40

  • Veronica Mendez-Moore

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Greg Nammacher

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Merle Payne

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,330,506
    Expenses
    $1,750,111
    Contributions
    $1,330,506
    Grants paid
    $378,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,508,150
    Expenses
    $1,382,050
    Contributions
    $2,508,150
    Grants paid
    $738,612
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $816,000
    Expenses
    $1,182,163
    Contributions
    $816,000
    Grants paid
    $708,578

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

  • CTUL

    $187,500

    2023 CONSTRUCTION WORKER ORGANIZING

  • INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA

    $125,000

    2023 TENANT ORGANIZING

  • UNIDOS MN

    $112,500

    2023 CONSTRUCTION AND NEW ENERGY ORGANIZING

  • NEW JUSTICE PROJECT

    $100,000

    2023 SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING

  • NEW JUSTICE PROJECT

    $52,500

    2023 CONSTRUCTION AND NEW ENERGY ORGANIZING

  • CTUL

    $50,000

    2023 RETAIL WORKER ORGANIZING

  • CTUL

    $0

    2024 CONSTRUCTION WORKER ORGANIZING

  • INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA

    $0

    2024 TENANT ORGANIZING

  • NEW JUSTICE PROJECT

    $0

    2024 CONSTRUCTION AND NEW ENERGY ORGANIZING

  • UNIDOS MN

    $0

    2024 CONSTRUCTION AND NEW ENERGY ORGANIZING

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.