Montclair Farmers' Market
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451579389
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Montclair, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9734649611
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,224
- Expenses
- $106,230
- Assets
- $74,250
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GRAY RUSSELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GRAY RUSSELL (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL PINTO (TRUSTEE)
- IRENE STERLING (SECRETARY)
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
The montclair farmers' market establishes a community service, supporting local farmers, allowing them the opportunity to market quality products grown on their farms.
What it reported doing in 2025
Double bucks is a nutrition incentive program aimed to help make farm-fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable to those in need of financial assistance. For every 1 that the eligible shopper spends at the montclair farmers market, the dvcp matches 1 for 1 in "good food bucks" (up to 20) to purchase fruits and vegetables. The dvcp allows our market to provide incentives for snap (supplemental nutrition assistance program), wic farmers market nutrition program vouchers, and senior farmers market nutrition program vouchers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.3% of revenue deployed · 54.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.