Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Asso
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231944161
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7176943596
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $416,497
- Expenses
- $365,813
- Assets
- $530,551
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- J PETER FLYNN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MORGAN BOND (DIRECTOR)
- BRIAN CAMPBELL (DIRECTOR)
- J PETER FLYNN (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate and inform the public - particularly vegetable, potato, and berry farmers about the resources of Pennsylvania, and the methods by which resources may be conserved, utilized, and improved.
What it reported doing in 2024
Newsletter - the association published a newsletter to keep members informed about trends and news affecting the state's vegetable, potato and berry industries as well as educational articles and news about the association. Regular editions are mailed to about 800 people, and special editions are mailed to over 3,340 people. Convention - the association sponsors this educational conference industry trade show to help educate members about the latest developments and technology in the vegetable, potato and berry industries. Approximately 900 to 1,000 people normally register with the association for the convention. Research grants - the association annually funds several vegetable and small fruit research projects, either directly or through the Pennsylvania vegetable marketing and research program. In 2024, the association helped fund nine vegetable research projects. Twilight and grower education meetings - the association sponsors these educational events organized by local penn state extension educators at farms around the state to help educate members. Legislative activities - the association seeks to keep its members informed about legislative issues that affect the vegetable, potato and berry industries as well as to inform goverment officials how legislation and government policies affect growers. Promotion - the association helps fund special promotion efforts that are designed to raise the public and produce buyers awareness of the state's vegetable industry. Donations - the association gives donations to various causes or events to help promote the vegetable, potato and berry industries or the agricultural industry in general. Major donations have been given to a group that trains teachers how to help their students understand and appreciate the importance of the agricultural industry to our society and to help support a mobile agricultural education laboratory. The association provides donations of plants and seeds to the capitol hunger garden in harrisburg, pa. Website - the association maintains a website to provide both members and the public access to informant about the association. Simply sweet onion committee - this program holds and administers the trademark for the Pennsylvania simply sweet onion on behalf of Pennsylvania growers. The license fees and assessments collected from the onion growers help fund research and promotion of the simply sweet brand onions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 60.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $220K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.