Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593006664
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523776345
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,154,429
- Expenses
- $6,598,830
- Assets
- $3,450,303
- Liabilities
- $342,882
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSE HASKINS (PRESIDENT)
- RAMKRISHNAN BALASUBRAMANI (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RAMKRISHNAN BALASUBRAMANI (CEO): $258,402 total reported compensation
- SALLY LAMMERS (COO): $96,759 total reported compensation
- JESSE HASKINS (PRESIDENT): $3,210 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Florida certified organic growers and consumers, inc. (fog) supports and promotes organic, regenerative, and sustainable agriculture.
What it reported doing in 2025
Florida organic growers' education & outreach program connects farmers and consumers, building knowledge, resources, and community around organic, sustainable, and regenerative agriculture and healthy food systems. Through workshops, farm tours, conferences, and presentations statewide, fog educates producers, consumers, media, and agencies on organic and regenerative farming, food systems, farm bill opportunities, certification, marketing, and the farming marketplace. Through the southeast organic transition partnership program, fog provides farmers across the southeast direct technical assistance, training, and resources to navigate transitioning to organic and regenerative production, while its policy work ensures small and mid-sized farmers have a voice before policymakers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $71.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 27.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $258K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $107K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 30 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 28 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 scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.