Matanuska Community Farmers Market
Overview
Mission
To promote local food access to all community members, regardless of income, to support local farmers with a direct to consumer sales outlet, and to support consumer to producer relationship and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Farmers Market - Our organization provides a low-cost space for local farmers, particularly beginning and young farmers, and local food producers with a place to sell directly to consumers at a seasonal weekly market. The market is community focused and aimed at fostering connection between farmer/food producers and consumers. To foster these relationships, in addition to the direct to consumer aspect, we host small community events, community meals, educational courses, and children's activities. The market also allows our farmers to participate in both state and federal programs, such as SNAP, SNAP Match, and LFPA, which they would otherwise have difficulty participating in. It is difficult to measure the exact number of persons benefitted different community members and vendors come each week. Population of the surrounding communities that have access to this market is around 20,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923217385
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Headquarters
- Palmer, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9079823928
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2025.