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SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION

EIN 47-2975827 PHOENIX, AZ

Revenue 2024
$14,045,848
Expenses 2024
$15,565,293

Program services were 99.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70
Classification
1000
Street
5455 E HIGH ST STE 111

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

THE SPROUTS HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION, ESTABLISHED IN 2015, WORKS TO IMPROVE LIVES AND HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE THROUGH LOCAL NUTRITION EDUCATION, NUTRITION ACCESS, AND WELLNESS PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORTS HEALTH, NUTRITION EDUCATION, NUTRITION ACCESS AND WELLNESS RELATED CAUSES IN AREAS WHERE SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET STORES OPERATE.

  • IMPACT GRANTS - MULTI-YEAR GRANT PARTNERSHIPS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP SCALE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY AND DELIVER HIGH-IMPACT PROGRAMMING ALIGNED WITH THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION. IN 2024, 12 IMPACT GRANTS WERE AWARDED.2024 KEY ORGANIZATIONS: BLUE WATERMELON, DAVIS LAB AT UT AUSTIN COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES, HEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS, LIFE LAB AND THE WALLS PROJECT, AND OTHERS.

    Expenses $7,833,845 · Grants $7,638,903

  • NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTSONE-YEAR GRANTS THAT SUPPORT DIRECT PROGRAMS HAPPENING AT SCHOOLS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ALIGNED WITH THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION. IN 2024, OVER $4M IN GRANTS WERE AWARDED TO 585 ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS FOUR CATEGORIES, INCLUDING: GROWING HEALTHY KIDS, WELLNESS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN, SPROUTING SCHOOL GARDENS, AND LOCAL IN-STORE CHECK PRESENTATIONS.WELLNESS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN GRANTS - TO PROVIDE ADULTS AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS WITH ACCESS TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND ESSENTIAL NUTRITION EDUCATION. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED $1,016,700 TO 129 ORGANIZATIONS GROWING HEALTHY KIDS GRANTS - HELP KIDS GROW HEALTHY AND EQUIP THEM WITH THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO DEVELOP HABITS THAT LAST A LIFETIME. SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON CHILDREN'S NUTRITION ACCESS, NUTRITION EDUCATION, AND HEALTH AND WELLNESS. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED 163 GRANTS TOTALING $1,240,358. LOCAL IN-STORE PRESENTATIONS - SUPPORTING HYPERLOCAL ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR STORE COMMUNITIES THAT EMPHASIZE HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND BEHAVIORS. THE FOUNDATION AWARDED 91 GRANTS WITH $695,000.SPROUTING SCHOOL GARDENS GRANTS - BRINGING HANDS-ON GARDEN-BASED NUTRITION EDUCATION TO LIFE BY SUPPORTING SCHOOL GARDENS AND CLASSROOM COOKING PROGRAMS IN 137 SCHOOLS, TOTALING $1,212,129.

    Expenses $4,278,147 · Grants $4,171,687

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $1,301,452 · Grants $1,269,066

  • NATIONAL SCHOOL GARDEN SUMMIT - PROVIDED FUNDING FOR THE SECONDNATIONAL GATHERING FOCUSED ENTIRELY ON SCHOOL GARDENS, THE SUMMITGATHERED 525 EDUCATORS AND LEADERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY WORKINGTO SUSTAIN SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAMS AT THE SCHOOL, REGIONAL AND NATIONALLEVEL. THESE EDUCATORS, AND THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THEY REPRESENT,OPERATE LEARNING GARDENS AT OVER 10,000 SCHOOL CAMPUSES, PROVIDINGHANDS-ON NUTRITION, SCIENCE AND ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION TO AN ESTIMATED5 MILLION STUDENTS EACH YEAR.

    Expenses $934,380 · Revenue $195,700

  • HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANTS - TWO-YEAR GRANT PARTNERSHIPS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP SCALE OR ENHANCE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS, RESULTING IN GREATER IMPACT AND REACH. IN 2024, EIGHT HEALTHY COMMUNITIES GRANTS WERE AWARDED.2024 KEY ORGANIZATIONS: LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA, COMMON VISION, MCKINNEY PARKS, AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS LOS ANGELES, CITY BLOSSOMS, FIRST PLACE ARIZONA, ALL IN EDUCATION, AND SLOW FOOD DENVER

    Expenses $705,045 · Grants $687,500

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $377,307 · Grants $367,918

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $57,800 · Grants $56,362

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • LYNDSEY WAUGH

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KRISTEN BLUM

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRANDON LOMBARDI

    PRESIDENT (EFFECTIVE 1/1/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIMMI ZALATORIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REBECCA BROWN

    TREASURER (THRU 7/1/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEREK MIRZA

    COUNSEL/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LISA MABEE

    TREASURER (EFFECTIVE 7/1/24)

    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
    $14,045,848
    Expenses
    $15,565,293
    Contributions
    $13,615,698
    Grants paid
    $14,191,436
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,573,779
    Expenses
    $3,091,123
    Contributions
    $4,542,083
    Grants paid
    $2,497,827
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,142,479
    Expenses
    $4,163,613
    Contributions
    $3,020,890
    Grants paid
    $3,712,604

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
    $3,024,993
    Expenses
    $3,799,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,692,739

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,121,060
    Expenses
    $1,796,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,668,424

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,259,605
    Expenses
    $3,577,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,653,106

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,713,918
    Expenses
    $2,812,967
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,634,143

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,934,582
    Expenses
    $2,954,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,871,447

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,646,812
    Expenses
    $2,174,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,519,426

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,097,262
    Expenses
    $1,428,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $683,547

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.

Grants made

  • LIFE LAB SCIENCE PROGRAM

    $1,600,000

    2024 LIFE LAB- (YR 1, YR2 AND YR3)

  • UT AUSTIN

    $1,385,766

    2024 UT AUSTIN 2024 TO 2027 IMPACT GRANT YR 2(2025-26) $489,299 AND YR 3(2026-2027) $439,481

  • VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC

    $1,108,982

    2024 VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION, INC. - HURRICANE RELIEF - ROUND UP

  • UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION

    $1,052,000

    2023 IMPACT GRANT

  • THE WALLS PROJECT

    $870,000

    2024 THE WALLS PROJECT - IMPACT GRANT - YR1 (2024) $400,000. YR2 (2025) $300,000, YR3 (2026) $170,000

  • SLOW FOOD PHOENIX-BLUE WATERMELON

    $765,000

    2024 BLUE WATERMELON PROJECT, INC. YR 1 (2024)- $220,000. YR 2 (2025) $285,000. YR 3 (2026) $260,000

  • OUT TEACH

    $750,000

    2024 OUT TEACH 2024 TO 2027 IMPACT GRANT YR 1 (2024-2025) $250,000, YR 2(2025-26) $250,000 AND YR 3(2026-2027) $250,000

  • LIFELAB

    $637,000

    2022 TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING AND GROWING SCHOOL GARDENS SUMMIT 2024

  • NOPI

    $531,300

    2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT - TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH & SUSTAINABILITY OF AN EQUITABLE SCHOOL GARDEN MOVEMENT

  • VALLEY LEADERSHIP CORPORATION

    $525,000

    2024 VALLEY LEADERSHP 3YR (175,000 2024, 2025, 2026)

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

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Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.