Shoreline Farmers Market Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452981263
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Shoreline, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2064873939
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,901
- Expenses
- $163,460
- Assets
- $69,885
- Liabilities
- $5,311
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRINITEE KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAURA BUZARD (PRESIDENT)
- DEVRA GARTENSTEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- EMILY PACUNSKI (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TRINITEE KING (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ASHLEY SULLIVAN (MARKET DIRECTOR)
- LAURA BUZARD (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
Shoreline farmers market (sfm) connects regional farmers, growers, and producers with the community, providing equitable access to fresh, local food while fostering a welcoming space for education, inclusion, and small business growth.
What it reported doing in 2025
The senior home delivery and active senior coupon programs: recognizing the immense need for increased access to fresh food and nutrition education, sfm has partnered with the shoreline / lake forest park senior center and northwest neighbors network to reach the most vulnerable seniors in shoreline. These seniors may live solely on social security, reside in subsidized housing, suffer from a chronic ailment, and/or have no personal transportation.the program relies on working collaboratively with the local senior center to identify participants and volunteers for packing and delivery. A key element of the market mission, the contents of these senior bags are procured directly from our market vendors, which helps support their small businesses. Sfm provided more than 3,750 pounds of fresh produce and locally made food to seniors in need, with each bag including one week's worth of fruits, vegetables, and more. To support active seniors who use snap/ebt at the market, sfm created and distributed co-branded $5 coupons to supplement their purchasing power for fresh fruits, vegetables, and honey. This program provided access to an estimated 2,000+ pounds of food, reaching 400-500 seniors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 57
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: -6.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.4% of revenue deployed · 56.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.