Native Roots Farm Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844361181
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
3023778174
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$133,151
Expenses
$137,757
Assets
$56,881
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • COURTNEY STREETT (PRESIDENT /EXECUTIVE DIREC)

People named in this filing

  • KARELLE HALL (CHAIR OF BOARD)
  • CAROL ANN PALA (BOARD MEMBER)
  • JOHN REYNOLDS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Native roots farm foundation (nrff) is reclaiming, cultivating, and celebrating nativerelationships with land, plants, and community for the next seven generations.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, nrff's fourth year of programming, the organization engaged nearly 2,100 people through in-person programs that uplifted indigenous ecological knowledge and connected them with the natural world. These experiential learning opportunities include culturally significant plant rematriation, nurturing the three sisters garden, and painting with inks made from native plants. The figure in box 28a is nrff's total for programming expenses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.4%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 45.8%; rating input score 46

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: -3.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.4% of revenue deployed · 45.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.