Chipping Hill Micro Farms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900627992
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Blue Bell, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8134689558
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,800
- Expenses
- $123,782
- Assets
- $18
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Howard Brosius (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Howard Brosius (Executive Director)
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
Chipping Hill Micro Farms (CHMF) is a nonprofit organization bringing the farm to Philadelphia-area PreK children, and provides vegetable growing and healthy eating classes to Philadelphia and Montgomery County PreK children. CHMF and our mission Chipping Hill Micro Farms (CHMF) is a nonprofit organization bringing the farm to Philadelphia region PreK. CHMF uses mobile greenhouse. CHMF aims to use any remaining funds to provide healthier meals to the children during their off-weeks. Since the program usually meets every other week, there is currently a week in between where the children are receiving the standard meals. CHMF also plans to use any remaining funds to supplement healthier meals during this period. This produce would be locally sourced whenever possible; CHMF will work with the Blue Moon Acres, Maximuck’s Farm, Bucks-Mont Hydroponics, and the Leola Produce Market, all of...
What it reported doing in 2024
McCausland Foundation
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. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.1%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 8
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: 0%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -61.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 8.1% of revenue deployed · 8.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.