Acadiana Growers Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474142071
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- New Iberia, LA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,213
- Expenses
- $148,472
- Assets
- $41,167
- Liabilities
- $31,466
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Lallande (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This corporation is organized to educate consumers about the benefits of consuming locally produced food products including fresh fruits and vegetables. To educate growers and producers in the best financial and business standards and practices to make their businesses profitable. To help strengthen the local economy by lowering entry barriers for local producers and improving food access to help expand the local food market.
What it reported doing in 2025
Acadiana Growers Alliance operated cooperative aggregation marketing and distribution activities throughout 2025 to support small-scale and beginning farmers across the Acadiana region. Through the AGA Farmer Cooperative and related direct marketing initiatives the organization coordinated the collection transportation storage promotion and sale of locally produced farm goods on behalf of participating family farms. AGA aggregated fresh produce pasture-raised proteins value-added products and staple farm goods from regional producers and marketed these products through farmers markets roadside farm stands pop-up markets mobile market activities and online sales platforms. These efforts allowed participating farms to access larger and more consistent market opportunities without individually bearing the full burden of transportation staffing advertising storage and retail coordination. The organization utilized shared infrastructure including refrigerated transport equipment mobile market vehicles wash pack stations cold storage facilities market tents tables and display equipment to improve the efficiency and safety of local food distribution. AGA also coordinated cooperative branding outreach customer engagement and market promotion activities designed to increase visibility and sales for participating farms. Direct marketing activities prioritized service to small and historically underserved producers by reducing barriers to entry into local markets and expanding access to cooperative sales channels. Through these aggregation and marketing efforts participating farms increased their ability to reach consumers improve product distribution expand production capacity and generate additional farm income while strengthening the regional food system and improving community access to locally grown food.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.