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CAJA SOLIDARIA

EIN 87-3887309 MILLS RIVER, NC

Largest nonprofits in North Carolina

Revenue 2024
$3,083,432
Expenses 2024
$2,488,157

Program services were 93.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K40
Classification
1000
Street
75 BRYSON RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

We envision a future where healthy, local foods bring us together as a community of care. Our mission is to ensure everyone has access to the abundance that the Southern Appalachian Mountains offer.

  • Caja Solidarias primary 2024 program delivered Healthy Food Prescriptions through North Carolinas Healthy Opportunities Pilot. The service addressed key population- health nutrition needs by increasing access to fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and by providing healthier alternatives to highly processed foods, meats, and oils. Participants received weekly, free-choice prescriptions through mobile and pop-up markets staffed by trained community health workers offering trauma-informed support. Each household selected foods that met their familys preferences and needs for the week. In 2024, we served more than 375 families with over 13,000 prescriptions and invested approximately $1.5 million in local farms and food businesses.

    Expenses $2,314,295 · Grants $145,694 · Revenue $2,560,859

  • In 2024, Caja Solidaria offered Essential Utility Assistance and Healthy Home Goods as wraparound supports for our Food Is Medicine participants. Caja developed these services in response to community-identified needs that affect the success of nutrition interventions. We distributed $34,000 in utility assistance to 66 families at risk of losing access to water, gas, or electricity, and provided $77,000 in home-safety supplies to 108 families. Items such as air filters, humidifiers, non-toxic cleaning products, and hypoallergenic bedding helped ensure that living environments supported participants overall health and stability.

  • In 2024, Caja Solidaria advanced the development of our Resilience Hub model, which integrates community support, engagement, and nutrition programs to strengthen household and neighborhood well-being. Through this model, we shared supplies and provided limited direct assistance for urgent household needs identified by participants. We also supported three Community Engagement Circles, where participants organized around shared interests related to health and wellbeing, including culturally relevant nutrition, financial literacy, parenting education, and physical activity. These peer-led efforts built social connection and community capacity, laying the groundwork for our farm-based resilience hub in 2025.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sonya Jones

    Departing Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $16,428
    From this org
    $16,428
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Christina Schnabel

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $77,708
    From this org
    $77,708
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Maria Harding

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $60,928
    From this org
    $60,928
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Amy Landers

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott McDonald

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Larsen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julie Haverstock

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harry Fleischer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,083,432
    Expenses
    $2,488,157
    Contributions
    $524,031
    Grants paid
    $145,694
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,403,635
    Expenses
    $1,334,519
    Contributions
    $408,374
    Grants paid
    $35,319
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $303,466
    Expenses
    $186,101
    Contributions
    $173,401
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.