Agriculture Food and Human Values Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463038872
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- East Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8649398770
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,271
- Expenses
- $33,698
- Assets
- $101,860
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Otten (President)
- Valentine Cadieux (Past President)
- Katie Dentzman (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Otten (President)
- Valentine Cadieux (Past President)
- Katie Dentzman (President-Elect)
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
To support collegial scholarly research and discussion of the agri-food system structure and value.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conferences: Support to the 2025 annual conference was provided ($2,500). The annual in-person conference was attended by roughly 350 people; there were 46 virtual track registrations (but in-person attendees could participate in the virtual sessions at no additional cost). There were multiple formats for presentations, allowing broad participation and engagement with the topical focus. The program also included mentorship luncheons for graduate students and early-career professionals. Discounted and complimentary conference registrations allowed scholars and practitioners with limited financial resources to participate in the conference. Preliminary support for the 2026 conference was also provided ($4,350).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -44.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.