Minor Crop Farmer Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541608554
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023033400
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,545
- Expenses
- $134,135
- Assets
- $48,608
- Liabilities
- $71,958
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Christian Schlect (Chairman)
- Jim Cranney (Secretary)
- Robert Guenther (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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Minor Crop Farmer Alliance will promote the interests of individuals and entities involved in the production, handling and/or marketing of fruits, vegetables, nuts, processed foods, nursery stock and other minor agricultural crops referred to as "minor crops," through, among other things, seeking legislative and regulatory assistance to assure the availability of necessary, safe agricultural chemicals for use on minor crops.
What it reported doing in 2015
Legislation and regulation for the industry
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.48; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2013 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.