Lawrence Community Food Alliance Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471826438
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Lawrence, KS, USA
Phone
7858651618
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,251
Expenses
$111,965
Assets
$98,589
Liabilities
$2,203

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALEX OLSON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ALEX OLSON (PRESIDENT)
  • CHELSEA HARRINGTON (VICE PRESIDE)
  • KRISHNAN PARANJOTHI (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

Sunrise project serves douglas county by providing space and opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to build an equitable community through education, good food, and social connection.

What it reported doing in 2025

Lawrence fruit tree project: this program stewards lawrence community orchard, located in east lawrence. Since 2012, this space has provided the lawrence community with a free food park planted with perennial trees and plants that provide food. Our orchard includes paw paw, asian pear, persimmon, jujube, che, autumn berry, gooseberry, cherry and more. Community members are welcome to harvest produce and enjoy the beauty of the orchard at any time. In addition to our east side orchard, we plant fruit trees in public spaces every spring including: bus stops, public libraries, schools and more sunrise community garden: unlike many community gardens in our community, sunrise garden is a free food garden open to all for harvest and enjoyment. We do not rent out plots or reserve the harvest for volunteers. We recognize that there are many barriers to gardening: time, skill, knowledge, and access to land. Our garden addresses those barriers by providing a garden space that is open to all. Volunteers help maintain the garden and the harvest is for everyone, regardless of their ability to work in the garden.

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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: -8.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $112K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.