National Association of Agriculture and Food Policy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273304817
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2024060212
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $152,933
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Patrick Westhoff (President)
- Joe Outlaw (Vice President)
- Walter Smith (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Patrick Westhoff (President)
- Joe Outlaw (Vice President)
- James Richardson (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
The mission of the National Association of Agriculture and Food Policy is to: A. to increase and diffuse knowledge to the general public about agriculture and food policy in its broadest sense; B. to educate industry and the agriculture and food community in order to further their technical understanding of policy; C. to secure united action and to represent the agriculture and food policy community nationally and internationally; D. to do all and everything necessary to enhance the growth of the agriculture and food policy research and the prospects for funding of such research; and E. to encourage policy changes in government to increase the funding of agriculture and food policy research. _
What it reported doing in 2025
Educated the agriculture and food community to further the technical understanding of policy issues, with a particular focus on programs administered through the Farm Bill. Conducted outreach and briefings to industry and academia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -27.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.