Community Green Farms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874305116
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Pittsburg, KS, US
- Phone
- (620) 404-2812
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $406,662
- Expenses
- $512,613
- Assets
- $73,981
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matthew O'Malley (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Matthew O'Malley (Executive Director): $99,875 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the health of communities impacted by inadequate nutrition through hands-on education and innovative agricultural production.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Community Green Farms successfully completed Phase 1 of our "Farm to School" initiative, of donating 10 hydroponic farm classrooms in 10 Southeast Kansas counties.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.1%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 37
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -125.2% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -83.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 47.1% of revenue deployed · 37.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $192K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.