Freedom Gardens
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465230217
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Frenchtown, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4063965147
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-105,842
- Expenses
- $24,489
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Heath Carey (Executive Dir.)
- Hanna Tester (Secretary)
- Julia Crocker (Treasurer)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Freedom Gardens has a mission to enhance local food security by demonstrating sustainable food production methods and providing opportunities for hands-onlearning. We strive to teach resilience to food scarcity througheco-conscious education programs about growing, preserving, and storingfood.
What it reported doing in 2023
Freedom Gardens hosts a website (www.freedomgardens.us) and two social media platforms (instagram and facebook) where we post greenhouse happenings and our involvement in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -123.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: -54.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -250.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.