Project New Village

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271306157
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Phone
6192622022
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Agricultural Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$709,073
Expenses
$993,059
Assets
$2,004,794
Liabilities
$85,044

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR DERRICK ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DIANE MOSS (MD/SECRETARY): $85,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To use urban agriculture to address community issues.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our programmatic effortsour bottom-up efforts aim to drive change through collaboration and collective action to create our good food district. This geographic place-making destination currently features: rooted resources - we operate 4 community gardens (1) mt hope community garden, an active agrarian space for learning, growing, and celebrating food. Established in 2011; (2) uvas st garden; (3) morse high school garden and (4) san diego 31st street seventh-day adventist church wellness garden.pnv growers collective - a network of backyard and neighborhood growers committed to a community practice to support food sovereignty agenda in southeastern san diego.community rising - a mobilization campaign which includes a 10-week curriculum-based training to develop resident leadership, resiliency, and consumer involvement.golden groceries - weekly subscription service delivering locally sourced, seasonal produce with recipes and nutrition tips to residents in our service area.garden to goods - food entrepreneur training for morse hs students to create healthy added value products for our people's produce mobile farmers market.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -40.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $623K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.