Tennessee Local Food Summit
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881725987
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9016267760
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,793
- Expenses
- $155,249
- Assets
- $41,196
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brenda Butka (President)
- Natalie Ashker Seevers (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Brenda Butka (President)
- Natalie Ashker Seevers (Executive Director)
- Kristina Villa (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support a healthy local food system
What it reported doing in 2025
Conference - Provided workshop sessions and created an atmosphere where attendees learn and exchange ideas and work that focus on mutual interest, over 400 attendees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.4%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 55.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.4% of revenue deployed · 32.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.