Kirby Family Farm Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461963059
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Williston, FL, USA
Phone
3525289260
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$497,910
Expenses
$908,299
Assets
$7,110,285
Liabilities
$449,945

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DARYL S KIRBY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DARYL S KIRBY (PRESIDENT): $12,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's mission is to educate and assist at risk children by offering hands on high quality educational, historical, recreational, agricultural and community enrichment programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization has undertaken the secondary mission to preserve railroad heritage and history and currently owns five locomotives. It started with one historical locomotive that dates back to the late 1800's was donated to the organization in 2013 and was lovingly restored by volunteers. That abandoned train is now the centerpiece of the farm giving rides to thousands of children and guests each year. It is shared with children of all ages to not only enjoy and learn but is also used as an example of how, with love and care, things can be restored, or saved from destruction, including our children. The collection currently consists of five locomotives, six open air passenger cars, one and one half miles of track, twenty railcars donated by ringling brothers circus, and train depot.

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.
  • 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -82.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.83; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $710K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.