American Indian Community Housing Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411782394
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Duluth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2187227225
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,091,257
- Expenses
- $4,081,458
- Assets
- $7,510,078
- Liabilities
- $5,845,768
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LEANN LITTLEWOLF (EXECUTIVE DI): $126,681 total reported compensation
- TONI DEFOE (FINANCE MANA): $86,917 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and sustain community safety and stability through a traditional approach.
What it reported doing in 2024
Housing and support services gimaajii-mino-bimaadizimin - we are, all of us together, beginning a good life. Aicho's central location at 202 w. 2nd street in duluth. Gimaajii features 29-units of permanent, supportive housing utilizing the "housing first" model. On-site services include assessment, advocacy, voluntary case management, and onsite programming for children, food security, and economic security. Dabinoo'igan emergency domestic violence shelter - a place where you are safe, comforted, and sheltered. Dabinoo'igan shelter is a 23 bed emergency shelter for victims/survivors of physical and sexual violence, trafficking, and stalking who need immediate shelter. Shelter residents can stay up to 60 days and receive a variety of services including advocacy, information and referral, housing seearch assistance, financial assistance, limted legal advocacy, and trauma-informed programming. Endazhi-maadaajimon - a place where stories begin. Endazhi-maadaajimon is a ten unit building which provides affordable housing options for individuals and families working to build rental history and housing stability.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.