Quabbin Food Connector
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853873732
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Orange, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9785445494
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,201
- Expenses
- $69,739
- Assets
- $68,944
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pat Larson (President and Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Pat Larson (President and Secretary)
- Cathy Stanton (Treasurer)
- Deborah L Habib (Director)
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
Support equity and access in the local food system
What it reported doing in 2025
Served as a program partner and fiscal umbrella for food access programs benefiting low-wealth eaters and small farmers in the North Quabbin region of Massachusetts. Partnered with local food co-op and area social service organizations to plan for re-launch of "Protein Bundles for Healthy Eating" program in December 2025. Developed funding sources to support this program through 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0
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: 43.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 58; 58th 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: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.