ARROWHEAD FARMS Tiverton Farmers Market
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870926860
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tiverton, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4014741064
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,174
- Expenses
- $89,959
- Assets
- $22,735
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Meredith Brower (Director)
- Ester Bishop (Board Member)
- Holly Dirks (Board Member)
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 strengthen the Tiverton, and greater Rhode Island communities, by operating a nonprofit farmers market that improves public access to local food, supports regional agriculture and small food-based businesses, and provides a community gathering place for local farms, food producers, artisans, musicians, nonprofit organizations, and residents. The organization's exempt purpose includes promoting local food systems, community education, small business participation, and public engagement through a year-round market and related educational activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, Arrowhead Farms operated the Tiverton Farmers Market as a year-round community farmers market serving Tiverton, Rhode Island and the surrounding area. The market's primary program was to provide a recurring public marketplace connecting the community with local farms, food producers, food makers, artists, musicians, nonprofit entities, local groups, and small businesses. Through this program, the organization helped residents and visitors access fresh local produce, meats, seafood, baked goods, prepared foods, honey, herbal products, and gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian food options. The organization held approximately 50 markets during the year, including approximately 12 specialty markets focused on locally grown foods, seafood, holidays, and seasonal community needs. The market operated from community-based locations in Tiverton, including the winter market location at the Tiverton Middle School cafeteria and the seasonal market location at the Tiverton Town Farm Recreation Area. In addition to operating regular markets, the organization provided approximately 6 to 8 educational workshops on topics such as beekeeping, fig propagation, fermenting, and herbalism. These workshops supported public education related to local agriculture, food production, home growing, preservation, and sustainable community food practices. The market also created opportunities for local food entrepreneurs, farms, artists, musicians, nonprofit organizations, and community groups to reach the public, build awareness, and participate in the local economy. The organization's 2025 activities supported its exempt purpose by strengthening the local food system, increasing access to locally produced food, encouraging community engagement, supporting small local businesses and producers, and providing public education and gathering opportunities for the Tiverton community. The organization did not make grants or allocations as part of this program during the year; its program service activity consisted primarily of operating the market, coordinating vendors and community participants, promoting local food access, and providing educational/community programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.