Africulture

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850764420
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Unionville, VA, USA
Phone
8043019114
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$249,576
Expenses
$204,651
Assets
$219,542
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Carter (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Michael Carter (Executive Director): $13,575 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Africulture highlights, explores, teaches, and enhances the principles, practices, plants and people of African descent that have contributed to agriculture. Africulture provides outreach and training to targeted communities such as racial and ethnic groups in Virginia and throughout the country. Africulture conducts workshops, seminars, teach ins, and trainings in racial understanding and equity, in diversity and inclusion and provides audits, rubrics and metrics in these areas to assist institutions and organizations to analyze themselves and offer paths for improvement.

What it reported doing in 2024

Assisted farmers with acquiring Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification and organic certification.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 12
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 16
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.9%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 15
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.9% of revenue deployed · 14.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.