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URBAN TILTH

EIN 20-4124161 RICHMOND, CA

Revenue 2024
$13,837,802
Expenses 2024
$9,430,060

Program services were 76.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C42
Classification
2100
Street
323 BROOKSIDE DR

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

Urban Tilth is a California nonprofit organization committed to educate diverse communities about organic gardening and to support a network of gardens dedicated to sustainable, local food production. Urban Tilth insipires, hires, and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture, feed our community, and restore relationships to land to build a more sustainable food system, within a just and healthier community.

  • Fiscal sponsorship relates to costs associated with the management and review of administrative functions for organizations that do not have formal 501c3 status and which have arranged to operate under the umbrella of Urban Tilth. Several of these organizations include Cooperation Richmond, It Takes a Village, Rich City Rides, Moving Forward, Richmond Grows Seed Library, and fCypher Healing Herbs Podcast Project.

    Expenses $2,476,672 · Grants $4,168,985 · Revenue $294,508

  • Education Programs is a farm, classroom, and community program at Richmond High School. The institute constitutes an in-class accredited class called "Urban Ecology and American Food Systems": an on-site 8000 square foot farm and a CSA program serving the school community. In addition the Education Program has afterschool programs called; The Healing Movement, The Urban Naturalists, Urban Watershed, and Naturalists Club. The Education and Urban Agriculture also includes our elementary school programs at Verde elementary and Lincoln elementary. At these two sites we manage large gardens, in-school and after-school gardening, nutrition and science programs. It also includes a 40,000 square foot urban farm at Adams Middle School, an abandoned middle school campus in partnership with the west conta costa unified school district. Lastly, The Basins of Relations Watershed Stewardship Program includes training in watershed technology, community engagement, and development of a community trail.

    Expenses $1,732,508 · Grants $435,297 · Revenue $856

  • Heal programs support the distribution of healthy foods to food deserts in West Contra Costa County as well as offer healthy and active living workshops, classes, cooking demos, and nutrition classes for the community. This work includes Farm to Table & farmers to families CSA's, Veggie RX, Free farm stands, and community workshops and classes.Activate includes community engagement and outreach supporting raising of awareness of enviromental justice issues and climate change challenges facing the fenceline community of Richmond. It includes mutual aid projects like our wildfire preparedness kits that offer resources such as herbs and teas to ease respiratory issues and conditions exacerbated by wildfire and refinery pollution. It includes participation in fire kits and community art projects to raise awareness. Activate also includes hosting cohorts of community members to learn about the topics through the year.

    Expenses $1,494,858 · Grants $708,901 · Revenue $397,000

  • Community Programs is a project open-to-all community farms, gardens, and edible streetscapes located at sites through Richmond. This is centered on nearly two acres of the Richmond Greenway, a former railway line, where we have planted and manage a Berryland, an Edible Forest. Also includes a 42 raised bed community garden also on the Richmond Greenway. We also operate a Garden Technical Assistance team which employs and trains local youth to help other schools, community organizations and churches build and maintain their own gardens.

    Expenses $1,321,160 · Grants $809,520

  • CAPITAL PROJECT is the purchase and development of the North Richmond Farm, a 3 acreurban farm in North Richmond. Plans are to build a permanent greenhouse, shade house,farm store, interior produce wash and pack and community meeting room, as well as an outdoor amphitheater, cafe and community commercial kitchen and a permanent office and home for Urban Tilth. The capital campaign is raising funds for this major construction project.

    Expenses $216,055 · Grants $1,501,779

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Doria Robinson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $146,234
    From this org
    $146,234
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Christy Leffall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jen Loy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abby Khodayari

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alfonso Leon

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Perls

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Erwin Lee Acox Jr

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Blackie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nate Shaffran

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tania Pulido

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Ly

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    11

  • Adam Boisvert

    Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $13,837,802
    Expenses
    $9,430,060
    Contributions
    $13,048,424
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,098,214
    Expenses
    $9,127,085
    Contributions
    $6,955,163
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $14,289,982
    Expenses
    $4,193,723
    Contributions
    $14,210,538
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,257,256
    Expenses
    $4,333,152
    Contributions
    $12,038,408
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $9,576,619
    Expenses
    $3,103,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,569,487

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,892,731
    Expenses
    $2,839,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,832,594

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,964,874
    Expenses
    $2,008,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,002,555

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,735,663
    Expenses
    $1,511,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,134,399

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,401,701
    Expenses
    $1,146,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $684,735

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,150,581
    Expenses
    $1,079,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $448,475

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $972,960
    Expenses
    $774,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $247,622

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $833,263
    Expenses
    $936,743
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,914

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $578,499
    Expenses
    $639,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,666

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $457,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,131

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008

Tax period
1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
Principal officer
Park Guthrie
Mailing address
5651 N Arlington BlvdSan Pablo CA 94806
Website
www.urbantilth.org
Doing business as
5 Local Coalition

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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