Land's Sake

What it reported doing in 2025

Farmcommunity supported agriculture ("csa") shares: land's sake offers the csa program in which shareholders share with the farmers the bounty and risk inherent in growing food. Shareholders participate by purchasing a season's worth of farm-raised food before the growing season begins. Csa members then pick up their share of the harvest on a weekly basis, for 21 weeks during the growing season. Depending on the type of share purchased, these weekly pickups begin in june, september, or november. Food for hunger relief: each year, land's sake donates over $25,000 worth of fresh, local, produce towards hunger relief efforts in and around boston on behalf of the town of weston. In 2025, land's sake donated an additional $264,000 worth of produce towards hunger relief for a total of over $289,000 in produce donations. This was approximately 30% of the total produce grown on the farm in 2025.conservation land management: land's sake has pioneered a public-private partnership with the town of weston to manage public conservation land for the benefit of the community.forestry: land's sake manages an innovative forestry program on public conservation land in the town of weston. Land's sake also provides a model for small-scale sustainable forestry. As part of our ongoing forest management plan, land's sake sustainably harvests hardwood trees from the weston forests to produce firewood, which is delivered each fall.pick your own: land's sake offers a number of crops for picking throughout the year.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
• Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
• Fundraising efficiency: $9.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.57; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings