The Farmlink Project

Legal name: Farmlink Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851398171
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Official website data refreshed
Nov 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
701-515-4769
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,269,299
Expenses
$94,698,735
Assets
$9,491,247
Liabilities
$313,988

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BENJAMIN COLLIER (CEO)
  • ANDREW GOLDMAN (CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BENJAMIN COLLIER (CEO): $134,806 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTINE CHOE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $134,106 total reported compensation
  • LUIS YEPIZ (MAN. DIR., FOOD PRGM & AGENCY RELATIONS): $131,870 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Farmlink Project exists to ensure that no good food goes to waste while families go hungry - connecting farmers, transporters, and communities to deliver fresh produce where it’s needed most.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sustainability: the mission of the sustainability team is to accurately quantify and translate the climate value of farmlink's food recovery to earn the credibility and trust needed to unlock funding, scale operations and impact, spur innovation, and shift the social perspectives that inform policy and legislative changes that promote human and planetary health. Farmlink connects a disjointed global food system to feed people and fight climate change, making tangible environmental impact through the following: mitigation: prevents methane emissions generated by food waste, a solution cited to be one of the most efficient ways to slow global warming.adaptation: reduces the impact of weather-related shocks on the supply chain and vulnerable communities facing food insecurity and climate stressors (i.e. Extreme weather, climate-induced displacement). Advocating its critical role in expanding access to nutritious food and mitigating preventable environmental harm, farmlink accelerates progress towards international goals to halve food waste and end hunger by 2030.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $150.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $92.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 242 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 230 filed related-organization links
  • 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.