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BIG GREEN

EIN 27-5083595 DENVER, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2024
$6,694,541
Expenses 2024
$5,600,201

Program services were 61.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K40
Classification
1000
Street
2901 BLAKE ST

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BIG GREEN BELIEVES GROWING FOOD CHANGES LIVES. GROWING FOOD IMPROVES NUTRITION SECURITY AND MENTAL HEALTH, GETS US INTO NATURE, AND OPENS OUR EYES TO THE WEATHER VOLATILITY CREATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE. FOR TWELVE YEARS, BIG GREEN HAS HELPED PEOPLE GROW THEIR OWN FOOD WITH SCHOOL AND HOME-BASED GARDEN PROGRAMS.

  • THE BIG GREEN DAO IS A DECENTRALIZED GRANTMAKING BODY THAT FUNDS GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS TO ACCELERATE THEIR WORK GROWING FOOD AND PUTS NONPROFITS IN THE DRIVERS SEAT OF PHILATHROPIC DECISION-MAKING.

    Expenses $1,081,137 · Grants $655,800

  • Our school-based program, Jumpstart, provides schools and other educational spaces with modular garden beds and mini-grants to kick off or reinvigorate their garden programs. The gardens are incorporated into the school day and positioned to help schools meet their goals in experiental learning, STEM, health and nutrition, social-emotional wellbeing, and more.

    Expenses $1,717,157 · Grants $183,000

  • Our home garden program, Million Gardens, makes home gardening accessible to growers at any skill level. In partnership with community organizations, we send raised bed gardens and grow bags directly to peoples homes.

    Expenses $656,621 · Grants $51,500

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.

  • Kimbal Musk

    CEO, Director & Executice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Don Degnan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Tang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Larry Mueller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorsey Hopson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Drake

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kasey Stark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Lea

    Director/ Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Madeleine Nelson

    VP of Advancement

    Total calculated
    $164,583
    From this org
    $147,392
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,191
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,392
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,191
    Filer's total
    $164,583

  • Dianna Zeegers

    VP of Program/ Secretary

    Total calculated
    $174,421
    From this org
    $141,252
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,169
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,252
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,169
    Filer's total
    $174,421

  • Isaiah Weatherspoon

    VP of Operations

    Total calculated
    $44,628
    From this org
    $37,999
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,629
    Hours/week
    40

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,694,541
    Expenses
    $5,600,201
    Contributions
    $5,897,761
    Grants paid
    $964,748
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,746,615
    Expenses
    $5,629,469
    Contributions
    $3,642,185
    Grants paid
    $2,016,888

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,254,106
    Expenses
    $6,463,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,419,659

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,088,851
    Expenses
    $4,714,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,640,789

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,047,457
    Expenses
    $6,667,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,759,958

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,169,600
    Expenses
    $8,923,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,238,231

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,386,353
    Expenses
    $7,670,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,770,862

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,982,780
    Expenses
    $5,436,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,275,860

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,905,453
    Expenses
    $4,364,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,295,742

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,587,314
    Expenses
    $3,689,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,537

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,711,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $428,352

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $362,350
    Assets (EOY)
    $878,606

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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.