The Food Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450493395
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Clarksville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9319056998
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,639
- Expenses
- $136,396
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- TONY KINSLOW (CHAIRMAN)
- AJ HAYNES (DIRECTOR)
- NEHEMIAH WILLIAMS (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization hires 20 diverse teenagers every summer from all over the city to grow healthy food for themselves, for our citizens, and for the poor and homeless in our community. Trough a unique combination of sustainable agriculture and educational workshops our youth are awakened to the issues of health responsibility, food justice and hunger relief. Due to covid, instead of hiring teenagers, cooking lessons were provided to families to teach them how to cook crops and crops that were grown were given to needy families and other organizations that feed the community.
What it reported doing in 2022
Program to teach children how to grow crops in montgomery county, tn and how to cook the crops.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -44.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2022
- 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 15/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.