Farm Stew International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813366582
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Princeton, IL, USA
Phone
4344090866
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,309,386
Expenses
$1,842,685
Assets
$1,613,078
Liabilities
$143,894

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOY KAUFFMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOY KAUFFMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $63,558 total reported compensation
  • CHERRI OLIN (SECRETARY): $51,468 total reported compensation
  • LORNA ROSE ELIZABETH KREIDLER DE SA (INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $48,993 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Farm stew internationals mission is to equip families to break free from extreme poverty by sharing gods powerful recipe for abundant life throughout the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

FREEDOM FROM DEPENDENCY: FARM STEW empowers families to be self-sufficient by teaching classes that emphasize Farming, Attitude, Rest, Meals, & Temperance. These funds were used to hire, equip, and mobilize local Christian trainers who lead the efforts in impoverished communities. Families who have Freedom from Dependency can overcome malnutrition with locally grown food and prepare healthy plant-based meals. In 2025, FARM STEW trained over 7,627 households across countries using a holistic Bible-based approach designed to build self-reliance and sustainable living skills. Across completed programs, 4,977 households and 38 communities achieved Certification status, demonstrating improved kitchen garden, healthy children (MUAC>_ 12.5 cm), a rubbish pit, clean latrine, handwashing station, and dish rack - plus 3 of 5: composting, weekly community participation, income-generating activity or saving, practice temperance, and purify water. These outputs will result in reduced hunger, disease, pverty, hopelessness, and dependency, which will be measured during the endline survey.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 61
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.