The Motherland Gardens Community Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871668717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2179000876
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,570
- Expenses
- $159,420
- Assets
- $131,331
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YVES DOUMEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- YVES DOUMEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARY YORKEN (SECRETARY)
- ALBERT NACTETA (TREASURER)
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 motherland community project aims improve the health of underserved communities in urban settings by addressing disparities in access to healthy fresh food while inspiring youth and communities to engage in urban agriculture and entrepreneurship. Our vision is for a thriving community where everyone has equitable access to fresh and healthy food to live an active and healthy life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our garden: our community garden is located on a beautiful piece of land that we cultivate with love and care. We have a barn on site that we use for events workshops and educational programs. Join us and become part of our community. Our program and focus activity are evolving around: 1. Sustainable agriculture and innovative roduction. Community gardens food hub agriculture incubation and entrepreneurship innovation 2. Conservation: native plants and pollinators compost production regenerative agriculture 3. Community development projects neighborhood revitalization and beautification land acquisition and development community services center agritourism 4. Advocacy 5. Apiary: beekeeping honey and honey byproducts
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 64.9%; rating input score 65
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: -6.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 106.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 161.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 64.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.