Northwest Arkansas Local Food Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332008221
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fayetteville, AR, USA
- Phone
- 6033808980
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,047
- Expenses
- $71,361
- Assets
- $39,686
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAMES MAGINOT (BOARD MEMBER)
- FRANCIS FREE (BOARD MEMBER)
- ASHLEY NIBLETT (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
The northwest Arkansas local food network connects our community to the farmers, food, and stories behind locally grown and raised food building awareness, deepening relationships, and strengthening the local food culture of northwest Arkansas.
What it reported doing in 2025
The double your dollars program is a nutrition incentive initiative administered in partnership with regional farmers markets in northwest Arkansas to increase access to fresh, locally grown and raised food for low-income shoppers. The program matches dollars spent by participants using federal food assistance benefits including snap (supplemental nutrition assistance program), wic farmers market nutrition program (fmnp), and senior farmers market nutrition program (senior fmnp) effectively doubling their purchasing power at participating markets. In the most recent program year, double your dollars served 1,354 customers, with $46,339 in incentive dollars redeemed with local vendors. Through this program, nwalfn connects underserved community members to fresh, locally grown and raised food while simultaneously supporting the economic viability of local farmers and strengthening the regional food system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 35.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.