Growing a strong local food system through collaboration, economic opportunity, education, and seed stewardship.
For fiscal year 2025 it reported $643K in revenue, $559K in expenses, and $716K in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2025
Total revenue
$643K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$559K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$716K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $84K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
86%
Program services $0.86 Management & general $0.11 Fundraising $0.03
Program efficiency
86%
of spending reaches programs▲ +3% vs prior filing year
Operating runway
12.3mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate▼ -5% vs prior filing year
Surplus margin
+13%
revenue over expenses, this year▼ -43% vs prior filing year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2025 · Form 990
Revenue
$643K
FY2025▲ +3%
$643K$321K$0
FY2020FY2025
Expenses
$559K
FY2025▲ +16%
$559K$279K$0
FY2020FY2025
Total assets
$733K
FY2025▲ +3%
$733K$366K$0
FY2020FY2025
Total liabilities
$17K
FY2025▼ -79%
$113K$56K$0
FY2020FY2025
Total revenue
$643K
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$559K
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$716K
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$84K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$733K
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B86%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 312
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 412
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $480K of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2024.
01
Kitchen Services. Our commercial-grade community kitchen offers reasonably priced kitchen facility rental (by the hour), and commissary, refrigeration and freezer space to entrepreneurs who are starting value-added food businesses. We also host culinary education courses and food preparation classes.
$199Kprogram expense
02
Youth Programs. Gardens
Working with the Cultural Arts Coalition to provide hands-on learning in a weekly after-school science club, we use the garden as a living classroom. Exploring food, nature, biology, chemistry and ecology through a garden, we also weave in the arts and cooking for a full seed to plate experience.
$151Kprogram expense
03
Seed Collective. Weve created a regional seed hub because local food needs local seeds. We curate a collection of varieties that do well in our climate, provide seed education and collaborate regionally and nationally to preserve and protect crop varieties.
Shelby Dixon’s $73K as Executive Director
is at the 75th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1173 $100K–1M food & agriculture 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 Shelby Dixon · Reported title Executive Director · Highest reported compensation $73K · Total expenses $559K
13%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $336K · Total expenses $559K
60%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
86%
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Overhead ratio
11%
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Fundraising cost ratio
4%
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Revenue growth
3%
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Accounting fee ratio
0%
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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.
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Sources
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Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2025IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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