Modern Ag Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991759025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Phone
- 3026587581
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,611,295
- Expenses
- $13,065,546
- Assets
- $2,545,749
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH BURNS-THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH BURNS-THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- HALLIE UTLEY (DIRECTOR)
- WILL BENTLEY (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The modern ag alliance is a diverse coalition that today represents more than 100 agricultural organizations advocating for u.s. Farmers' access to the crop protection tools they need to ensure we have a robust and affordable domestic food supply.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advertising and consulting cost
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.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $13.1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.