Greater Franklin Food Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933073899
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Farmington, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2072052627
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,985
- Expenses
- $60,379
- Assets
- $67,371
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BELLA RUSSO (PRESIDENT/CH)
People named in this filing
- BELLA RUSSO (PRESIDENT/CH)
- NICK ROWLEY (DIRECTOR)
- MERRIE WOODWORTH (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promoting a local food system in franklin county and surrounding towns.
What it reported doing in 2025
School garden education - conduct school garden lessons in eight schools in franklin county, serving more than 600 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 94.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.2% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.