Rvga Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472217833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Stone Ridge, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8456261632
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,429
- Expenses
- $130,513
- Assets
- $181,218
- Liabilities
- $1,394
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICHOLAS CIPOLLONE (PRESIDENT)
- TANYA JURCIC (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MATTHEW IGOE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- TARA TALABER (DIRECTOR)
- KAHLIL LOZORAITIS (DIRECTOR)
- NICHOLAS CIPOLLONE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is committed to strengthening the region's farms and preserving agricultural open space for future generations to foster a sustainable economy, a healthy environment, and build community and a sense of place. Rvga uses an array of tools and partners to keep local farming strong, stem the tide of development of farmland, help maintain our region's ability to feed all segments of its population and to supply our neighbors in nyc and the hudson valley with the best, most responsibly grown food in the world. We educate, celebrate and advocate about the importance of local food and local farms.
What it reported doing in 2024
We focus our work in the four core areas: farm to school, farm to farmer, farm to food pantry and farm to community. Also, rvga serves as a collective voice of farmers, residents and businesses working together to save local farming. Farm to school initiatives bring local foods into schools and connect students and community members to local food, agriculture, nutrition, cooking, and growing methods. Farm to school happens in the cafeteria, classroom, and community. Farmer to farmer: at the heart of rvga are the growers who work the land and join in community to share and learn from one another, and inspire each other. In support of what they do, we organize a range of forums, meetings and workshops during the year. The farm to food pantry program reclaims food donated from local farms and distributes them to food pantries and soup kitchens across ulster county with the goal of increasing access to local food in food deserts and areas of poverty. Farm to community includes rvga forums and public meetings to hear from farmers and others about the challenges facing existing family farms and the future of agriculture; how to bring fresh local produce into our schools, provide for the food insecure, and preserve irreplaceable agricultural open space for future generations that benefit both our farms and the community at large.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; 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: -2.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.