Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850556763
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
West Edmeston, NY, USA
Phone
2158524895
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$370,754
Expenses
$102,392
Assets
$314,309
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Alex Stewart (Board President and Treasurer)
  • Isaac Supernovich (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Alex Stewart (Board President and Treasurer)
  • Isaac Supernovich (Vice President)
  • Amber Johnson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Primary exempt purpose: Educational. Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's mission is to showcase and teach climate-resilient agriculture while increasing food access and access to herbalism for low-income, low-access communities. As a member of USDA's Conservation Stewardship Program and the first Otsego County recipient of New York State's Climate Resilient Farming program, we showcase a diversity of USDA NRCS recommended conservation practices. We run a variety of education and training programs on sustainable agriculture. We also help to increase food access and access to herbalism by donating 100% of our produce to food pantries, mutual aid groups, and herbal clinics, which in 2025 amounted to $109,182.42 worth of produce distributed to 27 partner organizations. By increasing the amount of fresh produce available for low-income, low-access communities, we both improve health and nutrition for communities in need and reduce family food budgets.

What it reported doing in 2025

Unadilla Community Farm Education Center Inc's Herbal Aid Program grows and delivers free, fresh medicinal herbs to mutual aid groups, free herbal clinics, and community apothecaries to increase herbal health access, particularly for economically disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Our herbal aid partners fill an important gap by providing free herbal health services to low-income and uninsured people who would otherwise fall through the cracks in the U.S. healthcare system. Additionally, distributing free herbal medicine to marginalized communities serves to reclaim plant medicine traditions that have been historically erased by the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. We provide fresh medicinal herbs to our herbal aid partners at no cost, including free delivery within a 90 minute radius of the farm and free shipping via priority mail in insulated coolers to preserve freshness. Our partners then utilize our herb donations to provide free herbal services including health & wellness consultations, internal and external herbal preparations, and supplies for home medicine making, particularly for low-income, BIPOC, unhoused, and immigrant communities. In 2025, we donated medicinal herbs valued at $55,338.87 to 12 herbal clinics located in New York State, Pennsylvania, Vermont, North Carolina, and Georgia. Our herbal aid partners then distributed our herbs and derivative herbal products to an estimated 1,427 people, based on the estimates of our herbal aid partners on how many people they serve on a regular basis. The Herbal Aid Program incurred $31,733.14 in programmatic expenses during 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: $526.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 72.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.07; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 65.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 108.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.