Strong Harvest International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453438880
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3608161387
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Agricultural Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,004
- Expenses
- $153,127
- Assets
- $74,512
- Liabilities
- $713
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEGAN PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 5/1/25)
- RICHARD KEMMER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL 5/1/25)
- LAURIE SUNDBY (PRESIDENT)
- FRANCOIS WEVERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MEGAN PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 5/1/25)
- RICHARD KEMMER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL 5/1/25)
- LAURIE SUNDBY (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
Strong harvest international's primary exempt purpose is to fight hunger and poverty by empowering developing-world families with the knowledge of how to grow and use the multi-faceted moringa tree for improved health, increased family income and environmental care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Holistic community development - in 2025, strong harvest continued to bring holistic community development to families around the world primarily through moringa training. Our work in tanzania, togo, nicaragua, india, and malawi this year encompassed the following: 1) providing introductory moringa training to 3,344 people, sharing how moringa can positively impact their lives; 2) training 158 new moringa peer educators (pes) who are now equipped to plant, harvest, and use moringa to improve their own lives, as well as to share the knowledge of moringa with their communities; and 3) holding continuing education workshops and continuing information sessions for 1,751 participants, expanding their moringa knowledge. In addition to teaching the rich nutritional value of moringa, along with its positive environmental impact, we focused on increasing family income through moringa product training, which was very well received by all who participated.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
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: -30.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.