El Dorado County Ag in the Classroom
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680305421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Placerville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5303038117
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,260
- Expenses
- $117,257
- Assets
- $350,910
- Liabilities
- $17,164
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTA CAMPBELL (CO-PRESIDENT)
- TODD GILLIHAN (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTA CAMPBELL (CO-PRESIDENT)
- TODD GILLIHAN (CO-PRESIDENT)
- GABRIELLE MARCHINI (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
El dorado county ag in the classroom is a local, grassroots, charitable organization that provides quality agriculture-related educational resources, programs, and training opportunities to cultivate through education an understanding and appreciation of how important and all-encompassing agreculture is in our daily lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
El dorado county ag in the classroom (aitc) provided three educational programs: farm day - for 24 years, aitc has hosted thousands of our local 3rd graders, 300+ volunteers and teachers for a day of hands-on, plant-based, agricultural education. The purpose is to educate and help students understand where food, fiber and forest products originate and how they are used in everyday life. Classes rotate to learning stations and experience eight presentations to learn about all aspects of agriculture and farming. Fields of learning (fol) - pairs a school with a local farm, three times a year, to enhance students education through hands-on agricultural experiences. Aitc strives to provide lessons that brings together next generation science standards (ngss) and common core state standards. By exploring the items grown on the farm, its environment, its changes and impacts, the program allows students to delve into all the disciplinary core ideas of life science. Farm partners range from the small farm stand of 24 carrot to the more traditional vision of an apple hill farm of rainbow orchards, to the ever-diversifying harris family farm, from the vineyards/apples/chestnut trees of smokey ridge ranch, to one of the highest vineyards in California, the environmentally friendly madroa. Just like our county, our locations are varied, but each one is rich in educational opportunities. Ngss curriculum subscription -this program provides engaging, standards- based science curriculum focused on the local industry and landscape. Schools can subscribe to the program, offering lessons focused on six topics. Each unit lesson is targeted to specific school grade level science standards and includes a detailed lesson plan, activity materials, supplementary teaching materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.99; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.