Hand in Hand Farm
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273572044
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Lebanon, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5414511243
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,401
- Expenses
- $183,747
- Assets
- $359,929
- Liabilities
- $113,089
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David W Berger (President of the Board, Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- David W Berger (President of the Board, Executive Director)
- Marlene A Pershall (Secretary and Treasurer of the Board, Volunteer)
- Fred Westerhold (Chair of the Board)
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
Hand In Hand Farm helps rebuild troubled families through agricultural adventures, classroom and hands-on parenting training, and mentorship. We provide vocational training to older youth and young adults. We also assist other nonprofit agencies by helping with their events or through consultation. In-person week-long family camps, vocational training, family farm sessions, online parenting classes, and individual consultations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Family camp days: Offered 58 days, 7 hours per day. About 20 to 30 participants per day. Entire families, about half of whom have a disabled child, attend during the day. Parents and children get family skills training while performing tasks, playing games, or participating in horse activities. Children also perform tasks as a group with volunteers while parents are getting classroom instruction or participate in horse activities. Many families attend only one or two weeks each year but this face time give instructors the opportunity to observe family dynamics as well as characteristics and needs of individuals. Most of these families then attend online parenting classes as well as receiving individual support long distance and the advice and discussion can be tailored to best fit those participants. About 80 families attend each year with turnover of about 25%. Most families report deep changes which include children making rapid progress in skills academically as well as all other areas of their lives. They also report being less stressed with more family harmony and everyone in the family working toward group and individual goals. Camps are offered without cost to participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $173K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.