Arif Urban Agrarian Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991326556
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9204507657
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,140
- Expenses
- $20,826
- Assets
- $127,047
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sahar Abdalla (President)
People named in this filing
- Sahar Abdalla (President)
- Jacob VanDehy (Treasurer)
- Cynthia Luna (Secretary)
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
Part III Program Services Accomplishments - Arif Urban Agrarian Collective (AUAC) provides urban agriculture education to the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advised by our founding farmers, five women from East Africa with 15 years of farming experience, we share urban agriculture education by restoring and operating the orchard and urban garden at the Peace Resource Center. In the past year we have hosted over 200 unique volunteers to learn skills in seed starting, composting, companion planting, soil ammendment, fruit tree pruning, and irrigation. All food grown at the farm is donated to volunteers, mutual aid programs, and foodbanks around San Diego. Program funds have been used to rehabilitate this garden which has lain dormant for over 7 years. Funds were used to test soil for heavy metals before planting, test the reclaimed water system for contaminants, replace irrigation lines in the orchard, purchase upgrades to a broken reclaimed wataer pump, buy raised beds and organic topsoil, and purchase seeds and starts for the farm. AUAC has also partnered with Imperial Beach Charter school to rennovate their schoolyard garden. AUAC helped them install 10 raised beds, an automatic irrigation system, and provided tools and training to repair their irrigation system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 comfortably covers expenses. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 49
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: 81.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.1; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th 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: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 48.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.