Hands on Harvests
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871609942
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Falls Church, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7032376177
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,495
- Expenses
- $17,916
- Assets
- $34,339
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Stacey Evers (Chair)
- Lisa Lanham (Secretary)
- Julie Carpenter (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary exempt purpose is to boost access to fresh produce and reduce food waste, especially in food-insecure areas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community gardens: managed Hands on Harvests established community gardens in food-insecure residential complexes. Served 27 families and additional youth by providing essential tools, seeds, plants, soil and mentoring. Led a youth garden program for Fairfax County. With 55 volunteers, built a third community garden.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
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: 32.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.