Farm Tomorrow

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
451453079
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Gouldsboro, ME, USA
Phone
2079632984
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,186
Expenses
$34,662
Assets
$364,942
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EUGENIO BERTIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • EUGENIO BERTIN (PRESIDENT)
  • KARA DAUL (VICE PRESIDE)
  • SARA FAULL (TREASURER)

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

Our misson is to preserve, exchange, promote and teach rural and traditional farming practices.through our programs the knowledge of rural agriculture and self reliance will be retained and exchanged providing economic and educational opportunities for individuals and farms in the region. We hope to inspire care and stewardship for the environment by providing experiences that reconnect people with the agricultural lands that sustain us.

What it reported doing in 2025

Farm aid- this program supports small farms by making connections between farms or by providing a service that might be out of reach for a small farm or a farm that is establishing itself. In the early days of farming, when farms were still small, a community of farmers would share a big piece of equipment and help each other with their harvest. There was not a need for every farm to own the harvesting equipment. As modern farms have grown in size this notion has been forgotten. We believe this is a piece of farming community and history that should be revived along with the movement of small farms. We provided use of our dry bean thresher to several farms, which provided an opportunity to grow a new crop without the added expense of the thresher, and it allowed them to experiment with growing a new crop before investing in the equipment needed to process it. We also helped organize moving livestock to the butcher. In rural Maine there is limited access to slaughter facilities, making them several hours away for many farms. Farms are challenged with needed a truck and trailer to move livestock and also the time and cost of the trip to the butcher. By helping farmers connect with each other we can help fill one trailer with livestock form several farms. This provides more access to the slaughter facility and helps reduce the cost of transportation for the farms.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 78% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • 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: 28.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.53; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.