2023-11-15T18:50:11-06:00 2022-12-31 680372583 CROPPER ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION 2700 YGNACIO VALLEY ROAD SUITE 270 WALNUT CREEK CA 94598 990 2022-01-01 861156712 AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN AGRI 4154726100 2169 FRANCISCO BLVD E A SAN RAFAEL CA 94901 ANDREW NAJA-RIESE CEO 4154726100 2023-11-15 1 ANDREW NAJA-RIESE 999009999 0 Mary Ann Cropper P01709825 9259323860 2023-11-15 2 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z ANDREW NAJA-RIESE 2169 FRANCISCO BLVD E A SAN RAFAEL CA 94901 6631864 0 X WWW.AGRICULTURALINSTITUTE.ORG X 2005 CA The mission of the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, responsible farmers, and producers as part of a healthy, Earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food system. AIM serves 410+ farmers, food purveyors, and artisans from 44 California counties who participate in AIM's nine Certified Farmers Markets that reached 2 million annual visits across the San Francisco Bay Area. AIM provides hands-on agricultural educational and training programs, operates a farm audit program, runs a mobile market for older adults and underserved communities, runs a begining farmer incubator program, curates a multi-farm box program for communities experiencing food insecurity, and operates CalFresh/EBT and Market Match services. 14 14 36 140 0 0 1626337 4178835 2210453 2382246 61017 117 236253 -77844 4134060 6483354 0 0 0 0 1923454 2025844 0 0 132048 1644380 2111254 3567834 4137098 566226 2346256 4055094 6294915 568312 550344 3486782 5744571 X The mission of the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, responsible farmers, and producers as part of a healthy, Earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food system. AIM serves 410+ farmers, food purveyors, and artisans from 44 California counties who participate in AIM's nine Certified Farmers Markets that reached 2 million annual visits across the San Francisco Bay Area. AIM provides hands-on agricultural educational and training programs, operates a farm audit program, runs a mobile market for older adults and underserved communities, runs a begining farmer incubator program, curates a multi-farm box program for communities experiencing food insecurity, and operates CalFresh/EBT and Market Match services. 0 0 1576046 Farmers Markets Educational Venues AIM's certified farmers markets provide critical learning environments where AIM, farmers, and food makers engage the community and educate about the health, social, environmental, and economic benefits of eating locally and sustainably produced food. AIM's internal research indicates that over 40,000 shoppers and eaters a week depend on AIM markets, or an estimated 2 million annual visitors.In 2022, AIM managed over 350+ farmers market events to offer local foods and and community building across three Bay Area Counties. Farmers, ranchers, fishers, food purveyors, and artisans travel from 44 California counties to have direct access to the public at AIM's markets located in the cities of Hayward, Newark, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Rafael. We maintain integrity by verifying that all farmers participating in AIM farmers markets are complying with specific Certified Farmers Market Program Regulations and with AIM's Rules and Regulations; we want to be sure that our farmers are selling only products that they grow. We developed a new Livestock Marketing Integrity Program to promote transparency and accountability for ranchers in our markets. 94375 Diggin' Education ProgramsAIM offers three farm-based education programs: Diggin' in the Classroom, Diggin' at the Market, and Diggin' on the Farm. Our goal is to empower youth to make healthy food choices that will positively impact their long-term health. Knowledge of where food and fiber come from, how crops are grown, why farmers choose to farm and what is in season, is a powerful tool for teaching good nutrition. In 2022, we served 3,236 students, parents, and teachers through our Diggin Education programs: at the market, in the classroom, on the farm, and at community events. 1167185 Rollin' Root Mobile MarketIn 2022, AIM strengthened its star food access program, The Rollin' Roo,, a mobile market that increases access to farm-fresh food and nutrition education for older adults and other underserved groups regardless of transportation or economic barriers by launching a new route across San Francisco. This was our fourth year of service, and we focused on serving older adults at low-income senior housing sites and communities with limited to no fresh food access. In total, we served approximately 6,000 participants, and an average of 500 people per week. Additionally, we recruited and trained 15 community ambassadors to join each Rollin' Root stop to answer questions, share recipes, and provide cooking tips to shoppers. Our nutrition educators produced 15 nutrition education videos and in-person lessons to teach participants about seasonality and eating healthy on a budget. Community Food AccessAIM farmers markets provide an equitable outlet for local communities to access healthy, nutritious foods grown on nearby farms. At AIM's farmers markets, we distributed nearly $750,000 in EBT benefits to shoppers of low-income to purchase local foods, and provided a Market Match of $500,000 for the purchase of free local fruits and vegetables. 89% of our participants attend the market on a weekly basis. Likewise, AIM partners with the County WIC and Area Agency on Aging offices; WIC families and Seniors buy fresh fruits and vegetables from the farmers market by swiping their WIC card with select participating farmers, or by redeeming WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program vouchers offered seasonally to eligible recipients. Seniors also receive "Bonus Bucks" to incentivize their purchasing of local fruits and vegetables.We continued the Bounty Box in response to COVID-19, a multi-farm box program supporting nutrition access for communities across Marin, San Francisco, and Oakland. In 2021, we fulfilled 9,707 boxes, including 5,368 that were offered for free to nutrition insecure communities in the Canal neighborhood, Marin City, and Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco. We partnered with 41 farms to curate seasonable produce boxes with 196 total varieties of fruits and vegetables.AIM plays an active role in the Marin Food Policy Council, Marin Healthy Eating and Active Living Collaborative, California Alliance of Farmers Markets, California Food and Farm Resilience Coalition, and California Food and Farming Network to support initiatives that promote food access programming, solutions to climate change, and programs that offer financial resources for small and midsize farmers. Zero Waste and Climate ActionAIM has a core commitment to contributing to climate crisis solutions, and our "Green Team" staff members have already worked to: expand AIM food recovery programs (surplus food donated to community groups at the end of the market day); bring composting and recycling systems to more of our markets; and help farmers access reusable totes instead of cardboard for transporting produce. AIM's farmers markets use greener practices to promote composting of food scraps, better waste management practices to avoid products going to landfills, reduction in single-use plastics, and the continued use of community partnerships to recover surplus foods at the end of market dyas that can be redistributed to hungry families. We have diverted over 75,000 pounds of excess foods from the farmers markets in 2021 that were redistributed to over 2,500 people with over 6,300 pounds of methane offset.Our farmers market sites have a three-bin waste system for compost, recycling, and landfill. We educate customers and vendors about reducing waste and switching to certified fiber-based compostable products onsite at markets, via our community newsletter, and social media channels. In 2021, we piloted a life-size interactive educational display at our Point Reyes Farmers Market to teach shoppers to properly sort their waste, in collaboration with West Marin Climate Action.We also developed and implemented an Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Policy at AIM to guide our purchasing activities. In accordance with our policy, we replaced AIM's gas generators used for operating the farmers market with electric battery packs. This reduces the pollutants our staff, customers, and vendors breathe at our markets. We are a Marin County Certified Green Business.In 2020-2021, we partnered with StopWaste.org to obtain funding to support 22 farmers to replace their cardboard boxes with reusable transport containers. At the end of 2020, we diverted over 5,100 cardboard boxes from the waste stream with 6,637 pounds of waste averted. This year, we are helping farmers obtain 627 free reusable transport palettes to sustainably bring produce to market. Racial Equity and Food JusticeIn 2021, we created and adopted an organization-wide Path to Racial Equity to collectively learn and publicly acknowledge how racism impacts our work and publicly share how we can advance racial equity in our food and farming system. As part of our work to make markets more inclusive and accessible, we launched our Racial Equity Fund that supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Farmers, Food Producers, and Artisans getting their start at the farmers market. BIPOC farmers, food producers, and artisans are currently underrepresented at the farmers market. The farmers market does not fully reflect the diversity of our food producer and farming communities, in part because the start-up costs of joining the market can create a critical barrier-to-entry. We raised $20,000 in funding to support new (BIPOC) producers and other socially disadvantaged producers to access markets by awarding racial equity market scholarships. In addition, through our recruitment efforts, we had 60 new producers who publicly identify as BIPOC admitted to AIM's markets. Farmers Market Promotion Program - Growing SuccessIn 2021, we implemented the second year of our 3-year Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. Our FMPP project is designed to create career pathways and expand experiential learning at our certified farmers markets. In 2021, we planned and delivered 6 webinars, including trainings on how to apply to AIM's Markets (in Spanish), Agricultural Law Changes for 2021, Are Value-Added Products Right For Me?, Best Hiring Practices for positions at the market, in the kitchen, and on the farm, How to apply for the Pandemic Response Grant, and How to create your Market Works Account. In total, these trainings reached 58 participants, emphasizing small-scale and socially disadvantaged farmers and small businesses. We also facilitated a network of community partners to work intensively with 30 farmers and small businesses who participate in our markets, providing them with important capacity-building technical assistance. Creating the Center for Food and AgricultureIn 2021, AIM continued to make progress in the development of the Center for Food and Agriculture to make healthy, locally, and regionally grown food more accessible to people of all ages, abilities, and economic capacities and educate eaters and farmers about sustainable practices in farming and food production. AIM is launching a campaign to build The Center for Food and Agriculture - a place for the Marin Farmers Market to become a zero-waste farmers market and educational space dedicated to healthier food culture. The Center will foster deeper connections between our community and their favorite farmers market, and advance our fight for better food, a cleaner climate, and economic justice as part of renewed food systems. Ultimately, this project will offer a social return on investment through improvements in diet and public health, community food security, climate action, and economic development in the communities we serve now and in the future. As of December 2021, we raised over $5.4 million and were about 34% of the way towards our fundraising goal for the Center for Food and Agriculture. 2837606 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 52 0 1 36 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA X TANYA WOLF 4154726100 2169 FRANCISCO BLVD E SUITE A SAN RAFAEL CA 94901 TAMARA HICKS DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 CAMERON CRISMAN CHAIR 5.00 X X 0 0 0 MOIRA KUHN DIRECTOR 2.00 X X 0 0 0 CHRIS DACUMOS TREASURER 3.00 X X 0 0 0 MONICA ROCCHINO VICE CHAIR 3.00 X X 0 0 0 MELISSA APUYA DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 JANET BROWN DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 JONATHAN MI DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 PABLO MUNOZ LEDO DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 PRISCILLA LUCERO SECRETARY 3.00 X X 0 0 0 ADRIANA SILVA DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 PEG SMITH DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 CHRIS MAGANA DIRECTOR 2.00 X 0 0 0 ANDY NAJA-RIESE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 40.00 X 157917 0 0 TANYA WOLF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 40.00 X 114947 0 0 272864 0 0 2 0 1 0 MARIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENC 3501 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE SAN RAFAEL CA 94903 INITIAL STUDY FOR CFA 167035 EQUITY COMMUNITY BUILDERS PO BOX 29585 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129 DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION 117079 2 229261 3949574 17433 4178835 STALL FEES 445200 2099322 2099322 OTHER PROGRAM REVENUES 445200 183650 183650 ATM SURCHARGEE REVENUE 445200 58674 58674 REGISTRATION FEES 445200 40600 40600 2382246 117 117 35200 229261 141617 -106417 -106417 8904 6893 2011 2011 OTHER INCOME 445200 26562 26562 26562 6483354 2410936 0 -106417 X 1774600 1087721 587866 99013 114645 70270 37978 6397 136599 83727 45251 7621 5113 5113 6331 6331 242085 164893 77192 44038 702 43336 29244 1068 28176 193924 85635 108289 6013 577 5436 12123 2748 9375 25511 25511 46302 46302 VOUCHERS 501478 501478 MOBILE MARKET EXPENSE 166276 166276 MARKETING AND COMMUNICA 157965 121994 35971 FOOD - BOUNTY BOX EXPEN 154602 154602 520249 395915 105317 19017 4137098 2837606 1167444 132048 X 575876 1002779 1765681 3095655 174326 294014 139272 285918 14761 10206 35166 29081 1461580 413273 784932 1048307 565080 528955 4055094 6294915 250944 306613 317368 243731 568312 550344 X 2965316 1413381 521466 4331190 3486782 5744571 4055094 6294915 X 2346256 -88467 X 0 0 0 X 207253 2342394 1066281 1626337 4178835 9421100 1945290 2001251 2030051 2210453 2417446 10604491 2152543 4343645 3096332 3836790 6596281 20025591 0 0 0 20025591 66011 59839 61017 117 186984 66011 59839 61017 117 186984 236253 26563 262816 2152543 4409656 3156171 4134060 6622961 20475391 0.97800 0.97440 0.00910 0.01130 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 1 4033 1 4033 0 Part II-B, Line 1: AS PART OF AIM'S MISSION TO CREATE A HEALTHY, EARTH-FRIENDLY, EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM, AIM WORKS TO SECURE STATE RESOURCES FOR FOOD ACCESS IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES AND CLIMATE ACTION. WE SPENT 40 HOURS IN LOBBYING FOR STAFF TO MEET WITH LEGISLATORS, DELIVER TESTIMONY AT HEARINGS, AND WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. IN 2022, AS A MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA FOOD AND FARM RESILIENCE COALITION, WE SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR $709 MILLION IN STATE FUNDING FOR CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE, FARMWORKER HOUSING, ORGANIC TRANSITION, DROUGHT RELIEF, WILDFIRE PREVENTION, COMPOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE, AND HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS. AS PART OF THE CALIFORNIA LEAF COALITION, WE ADVOCATED FOR THE ADOPTION OF CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 907 TO EXPAND ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC BENEFITS TRANSFER (EBT) SERVICES AT ALL CERTIFIED FARMERS MARKETS ACROSS CALIFORNIA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALCHEMIST CDC. WE SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR THE RENEWAL OF MARIN COUNTY MEASURE A TO SUPPORT PARKS AND OPEN SPACE, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, AND RECREATION IN CITIES AND TOWNS, INCLUDING A NEW GRANT PROGRAM TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS IN MARIN COMMUNITIES. 453151 413273 39878 1008429 1008429 1048307 Security deposits 9096 Beneficial interest in assets held by others 519859 528955 Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: FUNDRAISING EXPENSES NETTED AGAINST EVENT REVENUE Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: FUNDRAISING EXPENSES NETTED AGAINST EVENT REVENUE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ANDY NAJA-RIESE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 157917 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 157917 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b A copy of Form 990 was provided to all board members for review after filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c All Board members and officers are required to annually disclose interests that constitute or could result in a conflict of interest, in accordance with the conflict of interest policy adopted by the Board. During the voting process, each Board member and officer with a conflict of interest is required to recuse themselves from the voting process. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 A Committee of the Board of Directors reviews the compensation of all high-level personnel in accordance witH IRS Rules & Regulations. After compensation is reviewed by the Committee, it is then brought to the full Board for their approval. Efforts are made to secure compensation data from industry sources in order to determine competitiveness and appropriateness of salaries. Every effort is made to ensure that the process is thorough and transparent in accordance with IRS guidelines and the organization's policies and procedures. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Governing documents, Conflict of Interest policy, and a copy of Form 990 are available to the public upon request and posted on Guidestar. Form 990, Part IX, line 24e OTHER MARKET AND PROGRAM EXPENSE: Program service expenses 88742. Management and general expenses 12389. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 101131. SANITATION: Program service expenses 96799. Management and general expenses 574. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 97373. TAXES, LICENSES, AND PERMITS: Program service expenses 63162. Management and general expenses 13540. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 76702. WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURANCE: Program service expenses 37847. Management and general expenses 20454. Fundraising expenses 3445. Total expenses 61746. TRANSPORTATION: Program service expenses 34077. Management and general expenses 15882. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 49959. MARKET SUPPLIES: Program service expenses 36364. Management and general expenses 601. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 36965. OUTREACH AND EVENTS: Program service expenses 8348. Management and general expenses 298. Fundraising expenses 15572. Total expenses 24218. MARKET ENTERTAINMENT: Program service expenses 17850. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 17850. TELEPHONE AND INTERNET: Program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 17783. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 17783. ALL OTHER: Program service expenses 8688. Management and general expenses 2937. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 11625. EQUIPMENT RELATED: Program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 7087. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 7087. PRINTING AND COPYING: Program service expenses 3266. Management and general expenses 3738. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 7004. STAFF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES: Program service expenses 109. Management and general expenses 5190. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 5299. SUBSCRIPTIONS, DUES, AND MEMBERSHIPS: Program service expenses 658. Management and general expenses 4336. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 4994. POSTAGE AND DELIVERY: Program service expenses 5. Management and general expenses 508. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 513. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: CHANGE IN BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN ASSETS HELD BY MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION -88467.