Totals
- Total revenue
- $494,127
- Total expenses
- $486,595
- Contributions and grants received
- $494,121
- Grants paid
- $144,613
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $6
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $122,306
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,265
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $121,041
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $465,022
- Management and general expenses
- $21,573
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $465,022
Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$494,121
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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3 · Investment income
total $6 · related or exempt $6 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $144,613 · program services $144,613
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $53,000 · management and general $53,000
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $21,000 · program services $18,000 · management and general $3,000
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $26,500 · management and general $26,500
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $29,895 · program services $1,023 · management and general $28,872
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $6,805 · program services $1,337 · management and general $5,468
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11b · Fees: legal
total -$775 · management and general -$775
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $41 · management and general $41
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11g · Fees: other
total $678 · program services $67 · management and general $611
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $615 · management and general $615
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13 · Office expenses
total $20,174 · program services $2,647 · management and general $17,527
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14 · Information technology
total $3,218 · program services $98 · management and general $3,120
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16 · Occupancy
total $94,010 · program services $86,144 · management and general $7,866
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17 · Travel
total $49,942 · program services $1,080 · management and general $48,862
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $8,492 · management and general $8,492
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24a · Other expenses: Feeding Programs
total $18,733 · program services $12,588 · management and general $6,145 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Program Supplies
total $12,120 · program services $12,120 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Exchange Rate Adjustments
total -$2,466 · program services $0 · management and general -$2,466 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses: Reallocation of Shared Expense to Programs
total $0 · program services $185,305 · management and general -$185,305
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $97,840 · end of year $99,194
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$111,924
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$88,812
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $31,603 · end of year $23,112
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $15,934 · end of year $1,265
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $113,509 · end of year $121,041
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
The mission of Choshen Farm is to impact rural Zambia for Christ through relational encouragement, community development, and strengthening of the local church.
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EDUCATION: Fimpulu Christian School serves 430 students from the surrounding villages in 8 classes from preschool through grade five. The school employs 18 Zambian teachers, 2 librarians, 2 coaches and 2 groundworkers. A feeding program prepared and served by 6 village cooks provides a daily lunch for all students. The library was completed in 2022.
Expenses $270,896 · Grants $83,854 · Revenue $98,535
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AGRICULTURE: The Farm employs 8 full-time village farm workers. This year the farm raised chickens for eggs and meat for sale and for other Choshen programs. The Crop Diversification program distributed soy beans and training. A Soya bean cooker was constructed to produce oil and further encouraged growing increase soy crop production. The Fimpulu Livestock Reserve Co-op encourages villagers to keep goat and pigs at the farm and in turn, share in regular profits. Keeping animals in the reserve helps protect village gardens and good animal management can be practiced.
Expenses $139,278 · Grants $38,976 · Revenue $15,022
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CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: A small number of conferences took place at the Camp & Conference Center. The center employs 3 local cleaner/cooks, 2 grounds workers and a camp host.
Expenses $34,197 · Grants $11,850
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CHURCHES: Choshen Farm partners with 50 local pastors by providing assistance to churches and offering programs that provide Biblical training. Choshen contributes to church building projects and a pastor's library.
Expenses $8,880 · Grants $4,040
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COMMUNITY HEALTH: The community health initiative partners with the local clinic to provide follow up care particularly to patients with wounds and burns needing more continual attention. Additionally, the food security initiative is folded into community health via its emphasis on household nutrition. The feeding program at the school specifically serves lunch to 400 children per day and 30 expecting mothers that are housed near the school. Choshen continues to serve also as an ambulance.
Expenses $6,138 · Grants $3,041 · Revenue $5,363
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Assisted two village families with home building projects.
Expenses $5,633 · Grants $2,852
As filed on the 2022 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Jeremy Colvin
Co-Director
- Total calculated
- $56,614
- From this org
- $26,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $30,114
- Hours/week
- 40
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Bethany Colvin
Co-Director
- Total calculated
- $56,614
- From this org
- $26,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $30,114
- Hours/week
- 40
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Donna Stauffer
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Roger Steele
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brianne Alderman
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Arum Lansel
Vice-President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Rod Cosgrove
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Darcy Stockdill
Secretary/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 15 May 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202343119349300234
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