Farming Falmouth Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825301859
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Teaticket, MA, USA
Phone
5085664619
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Farmland Preservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,454,343
Expenses
$215,725
Assets
$1,541,615
Liabilities
$8,638

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELLIE COSTA (PRESIDENT)
  • RON NUNES (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ELLIE COSTA (PRESIDENT)
  • LORRE-JO JOYCE (TREASURER)
  • JENNIFER BUSSUM (CLERK)

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 mission is to build a stronger food system for our town - one that nurtures personal health, community health, and the health of our planet.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our mission is to build a stronger food system for our town - one that nurtures personal health, community health, and the health of our planet. We work to improve access to nutrition for all.our programs include farmland preservation; the patch, a 6-acre teaching farm; equitable access to food donations through our food insecurity partnerships via our service gardens; sponsorship of three community gardens; community orchard; food education for all ages; and food-forward policies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.3%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $32.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 85.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.15; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 106.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 115.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.3% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.