Financials
The whole year, the money held for farms shown apart from revenue, and the filings. Every document is a labelled sample: the organization is invented, and so are the figures.
The year
Seventy-seven cents of every dollar spent goes to the farms’ programs: verification, the floors and the ledger. Five staff, six contracted verifiers, a board of seven volunteers.
Two rows that are not the same thing
The sample 990 carries the premiums on the balance sheet and in a note, not on line 12, and the audited statements say why in Note 2. The premium arithmetic uses the same figures.
Three 990s, the audit, the letter
The three most recent Form 990s are listed by themselves; older years drop off. Every document is a labelled sample.
How to read them
Form 990, Part I is the one-page summary: what came in, what went out, what is left — and, in the note under it, the premiums that are not on the revenue line. Part IX splits every dollar into program, management and fundraising. Part III is the story in words: the farms, the visits, the gap.
The audit is what brands ask for before they pay a premium through anyone: an outside opinion that the money held for farms is held, counted and paid the way this page says.
The IRS letter is what makes gifts deductible. The sample presents what the letter states in the organization’s own typography, on purpose, so that nobody can mistake a demonstration document for a government one.
One worker-month of gap
$12 closes the gap for one worker for one month, on the average farm still below benchmark ($0.55 a day short, 22 working days). Monthly gifts let the floor rise on schedule.
$36 covers three worker-months of gap.
Give $36 once →Demonstration: the button opens an email; no card is taken. On a real site this is the organization’s own giving page. Gifts fund verification and the floor; they are never paid to farms as wages.
