Alliance for Navajo Broadband
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881734700
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Flora Vista, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5054093694
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,094
- Expenses
- $113,541
- Assets
- $64,461
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET MERRIL (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- TERESA HOPKINS (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOY THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MARGARET MERRIL (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT BIRD (BOARD TREASURER)
- BO LEWIS (BOARD SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The alliance for navajo broadband is a nonprofit dedicated to improving broadband access, affordability, and choices for the navajo people. Our goal is to increase capacity and improve performance for the best internet reliability, extend coverage to reach unserved and underserved areas, promote greater broadband competition, increase sustainable affordability, and to champion network diversity for redundancy, resiliency, and extendibility.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expansion and enhancement of broadband access for the navajo nation. Extend reliable internet coverage to underserved and remote areas, upgrade network capacity to enhance performance, and promote increased competition among providers to improve affordability and provide better connectivity for communities.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -118%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -94.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -64.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 51.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.