Syracuse-onondaga Food Systems Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993531633
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3155520470
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,000
- Expenses
- $32,824
- Assets
- $178,390
- Liabilities
- $93,214
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAURA ACKERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- EMILIJA POSTOLOVSKA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MAURA ACKERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CAITLIN TOOMEY (BOARD MEMBER)
- ADOL MAYEN (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The syracuse-onondaga food systems alliance (sofsa) is a network of changemakers dedicated to reshaping our region's food system. Grounded in principles of transformative justice and reciprocity, we cultivate connection, collaboration, and coordination across sectors to mobilize our collective resources towards a more just and sustainable food future in syracuse, onondaga county, and onondaga nation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food justice gathering is an annual event open to the public. Farmers, advocates, policymakers, and organizatioanl leaders from cny gather to discuss the current state of cny food system. The gathering promotes different departments and individuals to work together and improve issues at hand.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.1%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 8
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: 72.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.43; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.1% of revenue deployed · 7.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.