Boulder County Farmers Market

Analysis

Boulder County Farmers Market is a registered charity in United States, based in Longmont, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Boulder County Farmers Market reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $1.9m (+8.2%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Boulder County Farmers Market sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society of St Vincent de Paul Sacred Heart Conference Inc ($1.9m), Graniteville House of Recovery ($1.9m) and Plant Based Foods Institute ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 51% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $221k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $496k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $233k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 42 employees.