Domestic Fair Trade Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263613578
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2017
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
3475893398
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,707
Expenses
$64,339
Assets
$23,354
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Erika Inwald (National Coordinator)
  • Ernesto Velez Bustos (Board Chair)
  • Rosalinda Guillen (Vice Chair)

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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The DFTA is a unique organization that fosters collaboration between farmers and farmworkers in the United States and Canadian sustainable agriculture movement. We seek to build supply chains dedicated to principles of fairness, sustainability, and equity by uniting these efforts with mission-based traders, retailers, and consumers.

What it reported doing in 2017

Research- The DFTA continued our partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agriculture Systems to learn more about how domestic fair trade principles and framework can help support agriculture in the middle. The DFTA also began a new partnership with the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade (CFAT) at Colorado State University to do research that identifies successes and challenges to building supply chains that center fairness at every stage. We worked with CFAT to complete a brand new report that compiles all of the key research that's already been done on domestic fair trade. This research will provide insight on how the DFTA can advance domestic fair trade and how our members can alleviate some of the challenges that arise.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 66% of its reported program spending for member benefits.

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: 31
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.6%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 31

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -26% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -37.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.6% of revenue deployed · 31.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.