Our Village Gardens
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853985259
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5039435630
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $725,514
- Expenses
- $583,895
- Assets
- $330,081
- Liabilities
- $161,702
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL CHEVALIER (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- IDA LOMBARDOZZI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- IDA LOMBARDOZZI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $70,836 total reported compensation
- ZANDY GORDON (BOARD CO-CHAIR): $990 total reported compensation
- JASMINE GRADIE (BOARD MEMBER THROUGH 11/2024): $900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill building, andleadership development to address current and long term disparities tofood access.
What it reported doing in 2024
Growing projects - launched in spring of 2006 in the new columbia community, the seeds of harmony community garden provides access to land, seeds, plant starts, and compost to over 75 gardener households. Village gardens' staff support the leadership of the seeds of harmony garden committee as they oversee a 42,000-square-foot garden that serves as a community meeting place, a food source, and an educational tool for families in the community. The fruits of diversity community orchard a 10,000-square-foot orchard launched in 2013 in partnership with the portland fruit tree project is the first public community orchard planted in the city of portland. Fruit harvested from the orchard goes to community residents who volunteer at monthly work and harvest parties. We launched the neighbor-2-neighbor program in the early days of the pandemic. Through this program, we harvest and purchase seasonal produce directly from community gardeners to provide free weekly produce shares to seniors and other neighborhors who are unable to garden. 28 families receive free weekly deliveries of fresh produce and neighborhood growers are able to sell directly to feed their neighbors.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 61.6%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $66.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 61.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $359K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.