Better Health for All

The company's services have a positive health impact, notably through its partnership with Teens for Food Justice (TFFJ), which distributed 59,000 pounds of student-grown produce annually to over 10,000 students across 22 schools in food desert communities.

The company also offers architectural, engineering, and construction management solutions to the healthcare sector. In 2023, the company reported zero recordable injuries resulting in no days away from work. The company's operations generate positive health externalities by helping clients improve efficiency, reduce carbon footprint, and improve water treatment. However, the company's SEC filings only outline general risks, cybersecurity, and climate change as risk factors, without specific disclosures on health risks or benefits of its products. The company is evaluating how to establish a more formal diversity and inclusion policy and introduced a 'floating holiday' in 2024. It provides 401(k) matching up to 4% of salary, offers safety training, and is expanding professional development. The company has documented cybersecurity policies for data security. The gro-care® program supports healthy crops through integrated pest management and virtual training. The company's support for TFFJ also includes agricultural education resources.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

Urban-Gro, Inc. (UGRO.US) is an engineering design and services company focused on controlled environment agriculture facilities, not a financial institution.

The company does not offer lending, deposit, or other financial services to consumers. Therefore, all KPIs related to fair money and economic opportunity, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives, data accessibility, fair lending compliance, wealth-building outcomes, profit reinvestment in community finance, financial literacy initiatives, debt burden ratio, geographic inclusion, and product simplicity, are not applicable to its core business operations.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

The company's employee rating is 3.4 out of 5 stars (68%) based on 20 company reviews.

Voluntary employee turnover is approximately 18% annually, with the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer resigning in early 2025. Executive officers are entitled to participate in the company's group benefit plans, including health insurance, and a departing COO received six months of COBRA health coverage as part of his severance, subsidized by the company to an amount equivalent to active employee contributions.

Honest & Fair Business

The company has faced significant financial reporting issues, including multiple financial restatements for 2022, 2023, and Q1 2024 due to incorrect accounting of deferred tax liabilities.

A 2025 restatement was also completed in February 2025 for similar reasons. These issues led to Nasdaq non-compliance notices in 2025 and 2026 for delayed filings of 10-K and 10-Q reports, failure to maintain minimum stockholders' equity, failure to meet minimum bid price requirements, and failure to hold an annual meeting. The company also defaulted on a promissory note with J Brrothers LLC and faced multiple lawsuits, including a default judgment for $1.5 million against a subsidiary. A detailed whistleblower policy is in place, outlining procedures for anonymous reporting, non-retaliation, and investigation, administered by the Audit Committee, and includes a third-party independent compliance hotline. The company's anti-corruption policy mentions compliance with laws, including the FCPA, and reporting of misconduct, including fraudulent or criminal activity, but lacks details on training frequency or effectiveness metrics.

No War, No Weapons

The company, urban-gro, Inc., operates in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) market, providing engineering design and services. The provided articles explicitly state that information regarding arms contracts, dual-use technology, sales to embargoed regimes, peacebuilding investment, conflict divestment, board oversight of defense, export end-user certificates, lobbying on arms control, humanitarian procurement, human rights due diligence in conflict areas, Arms Trade Treaty compliance, AI military safeguards, UN Guiding Principles alignment, dual-use screening, surveillance transparency, ethical red lines, exposure to controversial weapons, war-risk audits, conflict partner reviews, defense divestment, conflict minerals, peace tech investment, conflict zone procurement, and ethical red lines compliance is either 'not applicable' or 'no data is provided'.

There is no evidence to suggest any involvement in defense or arms-related activities.

Planet-Friendly Business

The company reported no environmental compliance violations in 2023.

Three of its six office locations are situated in areas identified with medium to high water risk. The company is considering implementing TCFD recommendations, but no details are provided regarding its alignment.

Safe & Smart Tech

UGRO.US has not experienced any ransomware attacks, and its monthly security awareness training has reportedly prevented any security breaches since its implementation.

The company provides a four-minute security awareness training video from Ninjio to its employees each month, which is estimated to save the company $100,000-$200,000 annually.