Frontera Farmer Foundation

Analysis

Frontera Farmer Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Frontera Farmer Foundation reported income of $154k and spending of $201k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $222k to $154k (-31%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 129%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Frontera Farmer Foundation sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hungarian Human Rights Foundation ($154k), Newman Foundation Corporation of Northern Ohio ($154k) and Helping Hand Community Development Corporation Inc ($154k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $277k against liabilities of $500, net assets of $276k.