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FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION INC

EIN 27-2588129 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2024
$1,138,534
Expenses 2024
$1,049,672

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K40
Classification
1200
Street
211 S PATERSON ST STE 280

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 PROMOTE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) IN WISCONSIN AND STRIVE TO ENSURE THAT ALL FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO LOCALLY PRODUCED, ORGANIC FOOD AND HAVE STRONG CONNECTIONS TO THEIR FARMS, FOOD, AND COMMUNITY.

  • FARMER DEVELOPMENT - FAIRSHARE WORKS CLOSELY WITH OUR COMMUNITY OF GROWERS TO DEVELOP AND SHARE RESOURCES, BUILD SKILLS AND FARM EFFICIENCIES AND TO MAINTAIN A SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AND CAMARADERIE. FAIRSHARE ENDORSES NEW FARMS EACH YEAR THROUGH AN APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW PROCESS. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, FAIRSHARE COORDINATES A NUMBER OF FARMER-TO-FARMER PROGRAMS, AVAILABLE TO FAIRSHARE-ENDORSED FARMS AND OTHER DIRECT MARKET PRODUCERS, WITH TOPICS RANGING FROM TECHNICAL GROWING SKILLS TO MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO MARKETING. OTHER RESOURCES PROVIDED BY FAIRSHARE INCLUDE THE ANNUAL ORGANIC VEGETABLE PRODUCTION CONFERENCE, ON-FARM RESEARCH TRIALS FOCUSED ON COVER CROP AND NO-TILL PRODUCTION METHODS, AND AN ORGANIC VEGETABLE FARM MANAGER APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES A PATHWAY FOR FARMERS TO TRAIN AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES PERENNIALLY.

    Expenses $401,881

  • OUTREACH - EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF FRESH, LOCAL FOODS, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) THROUGH PUBLIC EVENTS, NEWSLETTERS, COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, PUBLISHED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AND AN EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE. EVENTS INCLUDED THE ANNUAL FIND YOUR FARM EVENT AND ROUTES TO ROOTS.

    Expenses $336,263

  • ENSURING ALL FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO LOCALLY PRODUCED, ORGANIC FOODS BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING FRESH FOOD FROM COMMUNITY SUPPORTED FARMS. THIS PROGRAAM SERVES OVER 180 LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS ANNUALLY.

    Expenses $182,765

  • NUTRITION BOOK SALES

    Expenses $14,346

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Clare Stoner Fehsenfeld

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $90,575
    From this org
    $90,575
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robyn Calvey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Klemme

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Laeser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amber Middleton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Jackle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Leong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kay Schwichtenberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Liz Gross

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Larson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Ridderbusch

    President

    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
    $1,138,534
    Expenses
    $1,049,672
    Contributions
    $976,303
    Grants paid
    $199,533
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,002,691
    Expenses
    $993,640
    Contributions
    $885,480
    Grants paid
    $216,103
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $821,098
    Expenses
    $748,985
    Contributions
    $693,848
    Grants paid
    $146,421

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
    $744,114
    Expenses
    $532,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $439,447

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,799
    Expenses
    $490,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,321

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $511,401
    Expenses
    $471,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $191,240

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $401,902
    Expenses
    $362,093
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,426

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,624
    Expenses
    $344,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,066

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,410
    Expenses
    $383,894
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,701

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $300,408
    Expenses
    $328,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $86,122

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,512
    Expenses
    $322,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,468

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $347,241
    Expenses
    $297,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,893

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.

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

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