Big Muddy Urban Farm Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811517958
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,426
Expenses
$72,866
Assets
$85,353
Liabilities
$1,000

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dennis Magnuson (President)
  • Jeff Cassler (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Angelyn Wang (Director)
  • Dennis Magnuson (President)
  • Dan Lindsay (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dedicated to making sustainable agriculture education accessible to all.

What it reported doing in 2024

Local and Refugee Farmers- In cooperation with Lutheran Family Services Big Muddy supports local and refugee women farmers in a collaborative farming format that develops participants community connections entrepreneurial skills and agricultural practices. Many vegetables that were grown were from refugee home of origin and used to supplement their food supplies. Our farm manager worked with growers resulting in excess production sent to farmers markets where the group had hundreds of Women Infant and Children and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program transactions along with many more farmers market sales and on-site distributions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47

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: -11.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.