Alliance of Sustainable Farms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811610660
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Ridgeland, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6015629451
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,915
- Expenses
- $151,015
- Assets
- $60,934
- Liabilities
- $2,139
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keith Benson (board member/CEO)
- Luther Levy (board member/president)
People named in this filing
- Keith Benson (board member/CEO)
- Destiny Crockett (board member)
- Steve Murray (board member/treasurer)
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
Education for small farmers though field days and individual farm visits
What it reported doing in 2025
Nine monthly field days and training for specialty crop farmers, and demonstrations of sustainable practices were held. Approximately 900 farmers benefited. Three demonstration farms established.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, and 55% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 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
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.