Jerusalem Farm
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460597938
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8164211855
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $968,041
- Expenses
- $986,852
- Assets
- $2,239,998
- Liabilities
- $610,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessie Schiele (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jordan Schiele (Project Director): $12,808 total reported compensation
- Jessie Schiele (Executive Director): $12,808 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jerusalem Farm is a Catholic intentional community in Kansas Citys Historic Northeast focused on housing justice workforce development and sustainability. Through its Dignified Housing program the organization repairs homes for low-income residents restores abandoned properties and sells homes affordably through a Community Land Trust to promote generational stability. The Dignified Workforce hires and trains local residents including immigrants and refugees at a living wage and offers pre-apprenticeship opportunities for careers in construction. Community feedback shapes its programs through biennial listening projects while service retreats and sustainability initiatives such as tree planting solar access and park stewardship further strengthen the neighborhood. With over 400 home repairs and multiple homes restored Jerusalem Farm partners with local agencies and prioritizes accessibility equity and inclusion ensuring all neighbors benefit as the community grows.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide home repair services to low-income elderly and disabled individuals and families. We are especially addressing code violations for homeowners and rehabbing abandoned homes for homeownership. Hire neighborhood residents to learn home repair skills and help maintain their neighborhood. Maintain a garden an orchard honeybees chickens and goats and partner with the neighborhood in maintaining a community garden. Also we planted and cared for over 1,500 trees to add to the HNE tree canopy. Listen to our neighbors through listening sessions and creating relationships within micro-communities in the Historic Northeast.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $939K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $13K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.