Save Family Farming
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812398664
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Everson, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603039123
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $347,992
- Expenses
- $345,195
- Assets
- $92,164
- Liabilities
- $10,638
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARKUS ROLLINGER (PRESIDENT)
- JASON VANDERKOOY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BEN TINDALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BEN TINDALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,667 total reported compensation
- FRED LIKKEL (BOARD MEMBER): $16,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advocacy group for local family farmers to promote the common agricultural interests of its members, including preservation and betterment of the conditions for family farming.
What it reported doing in 2025
Save family farming prepares information for public use and the development of information content via website, white papers, and blogs. The organization facilitates the management of communication channels. The organization also provides public relations on a variety of issues that impact local farmers in Washington state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.