Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202347562
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Deerfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4137720444
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,864
- Expenses
- $71,331
- Assets
- $32,575
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROMAN STOLZFOOS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- KIRK ARNOLD (CO-PRESIDENT)
- ERIC SHEFFER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHIE ARNOLD (BOARD MEMBER)
- LIZ BAWDEN (BOARD MEMBER)
- HENRY HARDY (BOARD MEMBER)
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
See statement 4to enable organic family dairy farmers, situated across an extensive area, to have informed discussion about matters critical to the well being of the organic dairy industry as a whole and to do so in an independent farmer-driven mode.
What it reported doing in 2025
We created effective farmer networking on a state by state and northeast level by; a) having a bi-monthly newsletter that goes out to over 800 members, b) organizing an annual field days event and producer meeting, c) creating and moderating "odairy", the organic dairy electronic discussion group, which has over 450 subscribing members, d) developing a continually updated website filled with resources for dairy farmers, ande) administering producer surveys providing information on pay price of milk, cost of purchased feeds, pasture use and feedback on important issues.f) to investigate and develop a new organic dairy supply-side model that is based on a regional solution to the changing dynamics of processsing organic dairy products. This new supply side model for organic dairy will provide all northeast organic dairies with long-term sustainability with the creation of a market and infrastructure for consumer-supported regionally sourced and branded milk.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.