Virginia Agribusiness Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540898392
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Quinton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8046433555
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $534,104
- Expenses
- $563,079
- Assets
- $396,319
- Liabilities
- $155,746
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TREY DAVIS (PRESIDENT AN)
People named in this filing
- JAY ABBOTT (DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT B BAHR (DIRECTOR)
- MIKE BREEDEN (DIRECTOR)
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
Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in Virginia.
What it reported doing in 2025
Meetings with state and federal legislators and executive branch to exchange needs and concerns of the members and decision makers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -5.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 32 of 32 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 33 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $110K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.