Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201625240
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- South Dartmouth, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7744007277
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $227,975
- Expenses
- $281,669
- Assets
- $273,898
- Liabilities
- $17,509
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN MURRAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SUSAN MURRAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $79,603 total reported compensation
- SARAH COGSWELL (VICE CHAIR): $3,825 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide assistance to farmers, educate the community on the importance of local agriculture, work to increase the functionality of our region's food system, and connect all people to local food.
What it reported doing in 2024
1-on-1 farmer technical assistance conducted 40 farm visits23 farmers served with 1-on-1 technical assistance: 25% identified as bipoc or immigrant farmers and 65% identified as underserved farmerstopics of technical assistance included, but were not limited to: grant writing assistance, land purchase applications, navigating zoning regulations, building websites, business growth planning, start-up and aspiring farmer meetings, soil fertility, fencing, and other in the field topicsworkshops & networking:10 workshops virtual and on-farm workshops for farmersa total of 200 participantssoutheast new england agriculture conference & trade show:25 workshops with 57 presenters300 attendeeslocal food promotion: printed and distributed 15,000 copies of our local food guide featuring farmers' markets, farms, local grocers and restaurants featuring locally sourced foodattended local farmers' markets and other outreach events to promote local foodhelped promote local food buying incentives like farmers' market coupons and snap incentives
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 67.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.