One Acre Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203668110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Highland Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8155729714
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $351,753,463
- Expenses
- $277,425,970
- Assets
- $365,469,461
- Liabilities
- $142,011,830
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC POHLMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- ANDREW YOUN (PRESIDENT)
- BELINDA BWIZA (RWANDA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- JOHN CLARK (KENYA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MATTHEW FORTI (MANAGING DIRECTOR, OAF USA): $281,857 total reported compensation
- ANDREW YOUN (PRESIDENT): $272,923 total reported compensation
- ANNA CARSON (BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SENIOR DIRECTOR): $250,770 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
One Acre Fund works with farmers to improve productivity through better inputs, practical training, agroforestry support, and incentives that encourage more sustainable land use.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization started working with 40 farm families in january 2006 and as of december 31, 2025 is serving over 2,000,000 farmers directly reached and 3,900,000 farmers reached through partnerships in africa to teach them more productive farming methods and help eliminate hunger. The organization reached over 30 million people in those families.
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 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 8 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $254.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $282K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.