From the Garden to the Table Smith
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300221004
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108414335
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $34,633
- Assets
- $12,271
- Liabilities
- $153,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- JEFFREY C SMITH (EXECUTIVE DI)
- GEOFFREY GRIER (VICE PRESIDE)
- FRANCIS COVINGTON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To promote health and physical, academic, and creative development of youth by teaching and modeling organic and sustainable growing, eating, cleaning, and building practices to working families and low income communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
To teach youth and low income communities healthy and sustainable growing, eating, cleaning and cooking with the green mobile teaching kitchen that offers classes and presentations at various events.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
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: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 58.1%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 12.55; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -33.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.