Nevada City Farmers Market Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262772744
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Nevada City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5302648995
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,240
- Expenses
- $102,366
- Assets
- $81,431
- Liabilities
- $11,951
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Samantha Villella (market co-manager)
- Stuart Coben (market co-manager)
- Dylan Lynch (Vice chair)
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
To support small farmers/producers via direct access to consumers
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided consumer access to approximately 20 local farms/producers, as well as approximately 25 local vendors of prepared foods and other products. Provided community education regarding the value of locally grown or produced products
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.9%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 66.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.9% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.