Reinhard St Community Farm and Kitchen
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332113217
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,583
- Expenses
- $26,702
- Assets
- $72,881
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Drain (President)
People named in this filing
- Benjamin Miller (Director)
- Stephen Drain (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reinhard Street Community Farm & Kitchen Reinhard Street operates an urban farm where it grows free food for local community members using regenerative agricultural practices. Reinhard Street began stewardship of twenty-six vacant lots in Southwest Philadelphia each surrounding the organizations property at 6171 Reinhard Street Philadelphia PA 19142. It has since transformed those lots into a space where volunteers and local community members engage in farming gardening and land stewardship. This transformation has allowed the farm to serve as a source of neighborhood beautification. Operation of the farm addresses food insecurity in the local neighborhood by providing fresh healthy produce at no cost to low-income and elderly community residents. Operation of the farm currently takes up 100 percent of the organizations total time but this number will decrease to approximately 60 percent once the below operations are in full effect. The farm is funded by publicly available g
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization operates an urban community farm that transforms vacant land into productive agricultural space using regenerative farming practices. It provides free fresh produce to low-income elderly and food-insecure residents in Southwest Philadelphia while engaging volunteers and community members in farming gardening and environmental stewardship. The farm also improves neighborhood beautification by reclaiming and maintaining formerly vacant lots. The organization is expanding its impact through the development of a community kitchen that will rescue surplus food and prepare free nutritious vegan meals for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity. In addition it will operate a community event space that offers educational workshops cooking and gardening classes guest speakers art programs and community gatherings that promote education social connection and neighborhood empowerment. These programs are supported through grants public donations and fundraising activities and are designed to improve food access reduce food waste strengthen community engagement and enhance the overall well-being of residents in the Southwest Philadelphia community.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.8%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.