Food Freedom Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473917847
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-PF 2020
- Location
- Fairview, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9204600905
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,943
- Expenses
- $78,034
- Assets
- $96,207
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- KAY CRAIG (DIRECTOR & T)
- ELIZABETH G RICH (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support organizations such as the farm-to-consumer legal defense fund in its work protecting farm and food freedom. Provide high quality educational resources to our supporters, partners, and the general public about the state of farming and food freedom. Provide compassionate relief to small farmers and local food producers suffering hardship due to enforcement action by a government agency.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided relief to small farmers and local food producers suffering hardship due to enforcement action by government agency.
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 78% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.