Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT

EIN 06-1642769 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2024
$2,836,419
Expenses 2024
$2,255,746

Program services were 85.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C34
Classification
1000
Street
306 W HAYWOOD ST

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

To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.

  • ASAPs three programmatic areas are the Local Food Campaign, Growing Minds program and Local Food Research Center. The Local Food Campaigns capacity building work gives farmers and buyers skills, tools, resources, and connections they need to succeed. The Appalachian Grown regional branding and certification program certified over 850 farms. Those farms gain access to promotional and packaging materials to identify farm products as certified local. More than 450 partner businesses including grocers, restaurants, distributors, hospitals, colleges, and public schools also participate in the program. Local Food Campaign organizers help make connections between farmers and buyers, share stories about food and farms in our communities, and promote local food where consumers shop and dine. This includes events such as ASAPs Annual Farm Tour and publishing the Local Food Guide, of which 70,000 copies were printed and distributed. The program hosts its annual ASAP Business of Farming Conference, delivering over a dozen workshops to hundreds of participants. ASAP operates a weekly farmers market in downtown Asheville and assists more than 100 farmers markets to understand best practices for management, promotion, and navigation of the regulatory environment. To expand participation in the local food movement, ASAP operates two incentive programs, including Double SNAP for Fruits and Vegetables and a Farm Fresh Produce Prescription program to provide eligible participants with weekly incentives for local fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets. In 2024 the program supported farms with relief and recovery resources in response to Hurricane Helene, including offering immediate need funds and and reinstating Appalachian Farms Feeding Families to connect farmers with alternative market outlets.

    Expenses $1,935,575 · Grants $232,840 · Revenue $135,179

  • ASAPs Growing Minds program connects education, health, and wellness programming with local agriculture. This program provides support and resources in order to create healthy food environments and experiences to better the health of all members of our community, including children, their parents, teachers, and school staff. The program provides workshops and other training to educators so that they can integrate local food, healthy eating, and farm-based activities into their work. Implementation is supported through tools, resources, materials, and funds distributed to teachers and community health professionals across the region. This helps to facilitate the creation/maintenance of school gardens, provide cooking demonstrations, support local procurement for classrooms and cafeterias, or take farm field trips. The program facilitates positive local food and farm experiences for thousands of children throughout our service region. Dietetic Interns from partner colleges and universities are trained to implement farm-to- school activities in their future professions. ASAP continued the Growing Minds @ Community Colleges to embed farm to preschool into NC Community College early childhood education programs. Growing Minds co-facilitates the NC Farm to Preschool Network and serves on the advisory committee for the Farm to School Coalition of North Carolina.

  • The Local Food Research Center (LFRC) examines the social, economic, and environmental impacts of localizing food systems. The center researches and tests ASAPs theory of food system change. ASAPs theory is that creating democratic and responsive food systems will increase community well-being, build resilient economies, and support environmental sustainability. Closer connections and knowledge developed through food system experiences empowers citizens to consciously create a just and sustainable food system. LFRC provides research and support for ASAPs ongoing programming for farmers and the community, content and context for the Local Food Guide, ASAPs annual report, and more. Research findings also support ASAPs fundraising efforts and research staff provides content, framing, and writing support for several proposals. LFRC also provides ongoing evaluation assistance to other ASAP programs and administers ASAPs annual survey to farmers, which informs the work of the Local Food Campaign.

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.

  • Molly Nicholie

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $98,067
    From this org
    $95,217
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,850
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carrie Keller

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Wendy Brugh

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Francisco Castelblanco

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nilofer Culture

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Payne

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Walsh

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William Bill Durr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Mauney

    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
    $2,836,419
    Expenses
    $2,255,746
    Contributions
    $2,675,568
    Grants paid
    $232,840
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,109,109
    Expenses
    $1,870,697
    Contributions
    $1,957,508
    Grants paid
    $139,909
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,910,061
    Expenses
    $1,856,903
    Contributions
    $1,745,583
    Grants paid
    $63,694

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,454,806
    Expenses
    $1,704,560
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,716,618

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,749,718
    Expenses
    $1,278,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $939,866

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,081,580
    Expenses
    $954,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $449,131

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,257,704
    Expenses
    $1,441,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $304,109

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,181,385
    Expenses
    $1,004,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $457,870

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,072,354
    Expenses
    $1,120,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $269,332

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,127,224
    Expenses
    $1,115,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $314,715

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,063,731
    Expenses
    $1,206,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $296,169

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,581,916
    Expenses
    $1,752,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $552,388

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,371,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $649,058

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.