Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930934830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5032495770
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,407,930
- Expenses
- $3,514,016
- Assets
- $8,830,889
- Liabilities
- $2,464,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEONARD FORSMAN (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- KRISTOPHER PETERS (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- MEL SHELDON (1ST VICE PRESIDENT (THRU JULY 2024))
- CAJ MATHESON (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- JON GEORGE (2ND VICE PRESIDENT (THRU SEPTEMBER 2024))
- MEL TONASKET (THIRD VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMBER H SCHULZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $140,199 total reported compensation
- CHARLES JONES (CLIMATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $131,151 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Summits - atni held three summits in 2024. Atni's natural resources summit engaged tribal leaders, citizens, and staff in conversations and modern approaches to environmental stewardship, while fostering a space where natural resources professionals can convene to create community with others conducting similar work in their prospective environmental fields. Atni's national tribal leaders climate summit convened leaders from tribes and first nations to advance tribal climate change policy and action. Atni's water summit is an inter-tribal event designed to bring together staff and leadership from northwest tribes and native communities to foster dialogue & collaboration around common water interests and work toward a shared agenda.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.9%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.9% of revenue deployed · 68.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $463K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.