Sonoma County Herb Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680147016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Sebastopol, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7078241447
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,963
- Expenses
- $46,622
- Assets
- $63,274
- Liabilities
- $9,567
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mitch Thompson (Vice President)
- Annie Dobbs-Kramer (President)
People named in this filing
- Mitch Thompson (Vice President)
- Mechele Foley (Treasurer)
- Adam Hyde (Secretary)
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
Fostering respect for the green world and our community through the responsible use and sustainable cultivation of herbs
What it reported doing in 2024
The Sonoma County Herb Exchange - A clearing house providing the highest quality locally and ecologically grown herbs to our local community. The Herb Exchange links local herb growers with practitioners and product makers.The Sonoma County Herb Festival - For eight prior years, we have held an annual Herb Festival every autumn featuring free herb classes and herb walks throughout the day, lots of booths featuring herbal products, plants, practitioners, and information. In addition, there were childrens activities, great music and tasty food.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.9% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.