Grow Local South Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462315450
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Corpus Christi, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8554769789
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $374,337
- Expenses
- $382,104
- Assets
- $28,135
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY DODD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAVIER D COLMENERO (COMMUNITY AD)
- KIMBERLY COOK (COMMUNITY AD)
- LAURA ELLEN DAY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to grow a healthy local community by improving access to, education about and advocacy for affordable nutrient dense foods with children's teaching gardens, our farmers market, producer education and community outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of grow local south Texas is to grow a healthy local community by improving access to, education about, and advocacy for affordable nutrient dense foods. Our programming to achieve this mission consists of the grow local farmers' market every wednesday, providing local food access in the downtown corpus christi area with an average of 250 customers a week and 25 local food vendors. We provide free in-school and after-school education in gardening, sustainability and nutrition to around 250 students during the school year as well as two multi-week gardening summer camps and 2 week long children's cooking camps. We attend monthly community outreach events, providing healthy recipe cards, planting and harvest guides, and additional all-natural agriculture and healthy eating information to our community. We have a year-round community garden management program which includes gardener education and we host our annual small food producers conference which provides a day of education to local farmers, ranchers and small food producers to help them with all-natural agricultural methods, understanding Texas food and agriculture laws, and small business development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -62.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $324K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.