Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Jun 2021.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
75 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
8 people listed on the 990; $187K paid to officers and key staff.
Jeneba Kilgore’s $80K as Co-Director is at the 80th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1171 $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 · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeneba Kilgore | $79,583 | $67,827 | $45,614 |
| Lazzlo Jenkins | $78,282 | — | — |
| Brooke Porter | $74,583 | $67,827 | $42,714 |
| Leah Atwood | $74,583 | $67,827 | $42,714 |
| Alexa Levy | $73,333 | $67,827 | $42,714 |
| Christian Pfeifer | — | — | $11,372 |
| Adrionna Fike | — | $4,850 | $800 |
| Nils McCune | — | — | $500 |
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.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Teaches farmers about sustainable, ecological farming practices.
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Community Education
education in agroecology People Benefitted: 126 Program Activities: The Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training (BAFFT) & Farmer Mobilization Program- BAFFT - Agroecology Commons (AC) organized an 8-week course serving 55 beginning and evolving farmers who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA, Femme, and working-class humans, through blended in-person and…
Networks and Narratives
community food sovereignty development and educational outreach in agroecology People Benefitted: 83 Program Activities:International Agroecology Delegations - AC supports international solidarity for agroecology, food sovereignty, and farmer-to-farmer movements led by Indigenous communities and peasants.
Land Stewardship
Development of incubator farm and tool lending library for beginning farmers People Benefitted: 38 Program Activities: Developing farm, building soil, planting covercrops, building production beds, building irrigationsystem, developing and stocking tool lending library, building toolshed for library, planting native pollinator crops.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2022 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY22 | End FY22 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $35K | $97K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $25K | |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $35K | $122K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $35K | $122K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $185K | $130K | $44K | $11K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $1K | $0 | $1K | $0 |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $15K | $11K | $4K | $875 |
| Management feesLn 11a | $155 | $0 | $155 | $0 |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $4K | $473 | $4K | $0 |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $3K | $0 | $3K | $0 |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $2K | $874 | $2K | $0 |
| TravelLn 17 | $10K | $10K | $122 | $0 |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $6K | $0 | $6K | $0 |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $15K | $15K | $181 | $0 |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $125K | $111K | $15K | $0 |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $368K | $278K | $78K | $12K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest | $830K | $922K | −$92K | $112K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $712K | $628K | $85K | $206K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 Viewing | $455K | $368K | $87K | $122K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $117K | $35K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2022 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $455,481 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 12 of 12 board members independent, 1 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $455,481 across 5 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $368,050 across 11 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $122,404 assets, 6 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $122,404 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2022 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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