Food for Everyone Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870673363
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID, USA
- Phone
- 8019154449
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,327
- Expenses
- $97,639
- Assets
- $342,940
- Liabilities
- $75,617
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James B Kennard (President)
- Royal C Kennard (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- James B Kennard (President)
- Araksya G Kennard (Secretary Treasurer)
- Carol K Lentz (Trustee)
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
Teach and demonstrate family food production; conduct humanitarian and other training programs demonstrations seminars and garden & greenhouse tours; create humanitarian gardens farms; provide vegetable gardening motivational educational and training materials on the world-wide web; host group gardening websites and videos on social media; create gardening podcasts and blogs; publish gardening books and write gardening and self-reliance articles for online and print publications.
What it reported doing in 2025
Publishing and providing vegetable gardening educational and training books CDs DVDs videos tools fertilizers and other supplies by way of the world-wide web with several internet websites including www.growfood. com and www.foodforeveryone. org. Hosting several group gardening websites and web pages. Writing articles for social media and print publications. Producing gardening blogs podcasts and Youtube videos. Creating and enhancing training programs for Certified Gardener Certified Master Gardener and Certified Master Gardening Instructor designations including print videos and online educational resources. Updating revising and publishing comprehensive Gardening Course instructional manual as well as an abbreviate edition of the Foundations college-level agronomy text Food For Everyone.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 27
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- 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: 25%; rating input score 25; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -244.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 42 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.