Hipeexnu Kii U Nuun Wisiix
Overview
Mission
The Nez Perce Language is in critical danger of becoming extinct with no more fluent first language speakers. Our small organization provides language instruction and hands-on cultural engagement experiences for students and their families. Guided by our commitment to true nonprofit values, we ensure that all materials and teachings are returned to the communities we serve, honoring our responsibility to uplift, preserve, and share our language for future generations. Our long-term vision is for a community to feel connected to our cultural roots, embrace our tribal history, and act as stewards of the land water and all life.
What it reported doing in 2025
General Operations for Language Cultural Revitalization, creating audio visuals and lessons located on our YouTube
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831557196
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Headquarters
- Lapwai, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2088166552
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -30.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -52.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: FY2025.