The Simple Farm
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884394445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Escondido, CA, USA
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,471
- Expenses
- $54,103
- Assets
- $25,222
- Liabilities
- $11,758
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lylah Ledner (President)
People named in this filing
- Lylah Ledner (President)
- Marie Dempster (Treasurer)
- Robin Layne (Trustee)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating and cultivating a culture on the farm for soul renovation
What it reported doing in 2024
Mentorship and spiritual formation programming
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.9%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -68% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.9% of revenue deployed · 22.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.