Connects communities to land, food, and opportunities.
For fiscal year 2019 it reported $430K in revenue, $396K in expenses, and $108K in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2019
Total revenue
$430K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$396K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$108K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $34K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
75%
20%
Program services $0.75 Management & general $0.20 Fundraising $0.05
Program efficiency
75%
of spending reaches programs
Operating runway
4.7mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate
Surplus margin
+8%
revenue over expenses, this year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2019 · Form 990
Revenue
$430K
FY2019
$4.5M$2.3M$0
FY2019FY2024
Expenses
$396K
FY2019
$1.6M$808K$0
FY2019FY2024
Total assets
$260K
FY2019
$4.2M$2.1M$0
FY2019FY2024
Total liabilities
$151K
FY2019
$867K$434K$0
FY2019FY2024
Total revenue
$430K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$396K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$108K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$34K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$260K
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B75%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 310
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 410
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $290K of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2019.
01
Farmers' Market Programs
Providing calfresh processing services for 11 farmers' markets, and technical assistance to an additional 9 markets, to ensure that low-income populations have equitable access to healthy food. Also offered the market match incentive program that matches calfresh benefits spent at farmers' markets.
$141Kprogram expense
02
Food Business Training and Incubator
In the summer of 2019 alchemist CDC officially launched the alchemist kitchen program with the first cohort of alchemist microenterprise academy (ama). In ama, food entrepreneurs completed a 10-WEEK business training course that taught the fundamentals of starting and growing a food business.
$114Kprogram expense
03
Neighborhood Development
Alchemist CDC is committed to working with local neighbors to remake blighted land into vibrant, neighborhood amenities through direct community engagement, design and hands-on participation in creating public gardens, community gathering spaces and privately owned public spaces- leading to a sense of place.
Sam Greenlee’s $94K as Executive Di
is at the 17th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2834 $1–10M community development nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 3 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Tiffany Rosso · Reported title EXEC. DIRECT · Highest reported compensation $39K · Total expenses $396K
10%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $285K · Total expenses $396K
72%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
75%
—
—
Overhead ratio
20%
—
—
Fundraising cost ratio
5%
—
—
Accounting fee ratio
0%
—
—
Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
Want to add your own materials alongside these filings? Claim this org
Sources
Every figure above is drawn from these filings
Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2019IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
Names, privacy, and removal requests More
The names, titles, and compensation shown on this page are reproduced from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public records.
Philanthropy.org does not alter the content of those filings. All information appears exactly as reported by the filing organization for the tax year shown.
We publish only information contained in the public IRS filing — and less than the filing contains. Our profile pages do not display street addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or other personal contact information, even where the filing includes them.
Many people share the same name. A name shown on this page reflects only what one organization reported in one IRS filing for one tax year. It should not be interpreted as identifying any other individual with the same or a similar name.
If you are no longer affiliated with the organization, your name will generally stop appearing in future IRS filings once the organization no longer reports you. Pages for tax years in which you were reported remain published because those filings remain part of the public record.
Philanthropy.org does not alter or remove IRS filing records. Removing a page from this website would not remove the underlying IRS filing, which remains publicly available from the IRS and other publishers of the same information.
If you believe the IRS filing itself is inaccurate, corrections must be made by the filing organization or the IRS directly.
All figures are derived from public IRS Form 990 filings and are presented without evaluation of any organization. philanthropy.org does not rate, score, or rank organizations, including the peer-cohort and compensation comparisons above.
Sign-in is temporarily unavailable
Leave your email and we’ll let you know when you can finish signing in and follow
the organization.
