Farmscape Solutions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
465025595
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Auburn, AL, USA
Phone
3347408515
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,683
Expenses
$51,062
Assets
$27,500
Liabilities
$134,200

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAYME OATES (DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAYME OATES (DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT)
  • TIA GONZALES (TREASURER)
  • KARA MYERS (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Strengthening local economies and community wellness through combined incentives for framers and consumers by promoting and caring for farms, providing healthy food in rural areas, and building sustainable, nurturing relationships with the land and our communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Innovation and collaboration to restructure our food system by connect ing consumers and local producers in ways that revitalize local econom ies enrich community cultures and value our natural resources.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.2%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.88; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.2% of revenue deployed · 70.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.