Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$712,395

Total expenses

$627,824

Contributions and grants received

$712,145

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$250

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$205,869

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$205,869

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$419,964

Management and general expenses

$177,797

Fundraising expenses

$30,063

Program service expenses (Part III)

$419,964

Program services were 66.9% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Community Education: Services Provided: Education in agroecology through apprenticeships, seed grants, and farmer-to-farmer skill-shares. People Benefitted: 288 Program Activities: The Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training (BAFFT) & Farmer Mobilization Program- BAFFT - Agroecology Commons (AC) organized an 12-month apprenticeship program serving 12 beginning and evolving farmers who are BIPOC, LGBTQIA, Femme, and working-class humans focused on land stewardship,small farm production, cooperative marketing, and food sovereignty.We also organized and implemented a seed grant program for ten BAFFT graduates and farmer educators to support community projects for agroecology and food sovereignty. Farmer-to-Farmer Skillshares- AC organized seven 1/2 day learning exchanges and trained 238 young and beginning farmers, majority BIPOC. Training topics included soil health and fertility, goat stewardship and cheese making, bee hive resilience, rotational grazing, and cooperative organizing for land stewardship.

  Expenses $255,255

• Networks and Solidarity: Services Provided: Educational networks for agroecology and community food sovereignty development People Benefitted: 146 Program Activities: Three networking and community development events were organized. Two were for farmer wellness that offered healing and wellness services directly to farmers and one for international solidarity on behalf of food sovereignty in Nicaragua and Cuba.

  Expenses $65,987

• Land Stewardship:Services Provided: Development of incubator farm and tool lending library for beginning farmers, tool trainings People Benefitted: 35 Program Activities: BCS Trainings, Book review, STLT daikon processing day, incubator preparation, soil health building via compost production and spreading mulch, planting covercrops, building production beds, building irrigation system, developing and stocking tool lending library, planting and tending to native pollinator crops and hedgerows.

  Expenses $98,722

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

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

2023

Filed

8 May 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202441449349300434

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