Antfarm Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931326167
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Sandy, OR, USA
Phone
5036689955
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,546,374
Expenses
$5,910,730
Assets
$2,388,789
Liabilities
$796,678

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TWO FOXES SINGING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KIM WHEELER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TWO FOXES SINGING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $100,000 total reported compensation
  • KIM WHEELER (PRESIDENT): $12,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is creating and connecting a healthy, purposeful, and compassionate community by providing life-changing learning experiences for youth. We have several programs that serve youth, families, and different communities in clackamas county.

What it reported doing in 2024

Antfarms workforce development program combines youthcore, community connect, farmers market, and planet 365 programs and expanded. The program provides work in partnership with local community members, public lands, and agencies while teaching youth valuable work skills. Antfarm works will all youth, yet many are challenged with and often demonstrate low academic performance, behavioral difficulties, mental health challenges, and additiction. We engage all youth in learning objectives that not only address the basic work readiness skills, but also address life and social skills needs. Youth engaged in antfarms workforce development program learn five basic work readiness skills in addition to the specific skills required to do the work. In addition, valuable life skills and social skills learning and support are built into the daily routines youth are given tasks and responsibilities as a part of the team that creates an understanding of positive relationships, the ability to support each other, and the ability to work together as a team. Our youth have minimal opportunities too, so it has been amazing to witness the pride in our local youth when engaged in antfarms workforce development as they work on local projects. Youth who never ventured into the local natural landscape are now regularly engaged. We have also seen a strong sense of civic engagement and community pride. Partnerships include working with mount hood national forest, bureau of land management, recreational trail projects, vocational rehabilitation, youth transition projects, and many community members. Antfarm employs youth and adults, providing many of the youth first time job experiences. The program (formerly community connect) also provides free services to the community, mainly elderly, by youth workers and volunteers working with adult volunteers. The youth get the opportunity to learn trade skills and how to be part of a professional team, while also learning about the benefits of giving back to the community. The volunteer teams involved in the program do things like clearing sticker bushes from property and other landscape maintenance services, repairing damanged property, painting, etc for those who would otherwise go without these services. This program sees a large number of volunteer hours each year. The 2430 volunteer hours given to this program in is humbling.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -6.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.