Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
630849027
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Haleyville, AL, USA
Phone
2052694277
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$54,522
Expenses
$83,183
Assets
$90,718
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LARRY G SMITH (PRINCIPAL CHIEF)
  • SUSAN EASON (1ST VICE CHIEF)
  • ROB RUSSELL (2ND VICE CHIEF)

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 primary purpose of the organization is to preserve, teach, and promote Native American culture, with a special emphasis on the traditions, history, values, and heritage of Indigenous peoples. The organization is dedicated to providing cultural education through programs, workshops, community events, demonstrations, and outreach activities designed to increase public understanding and appreciation of Native American customs, language, arts, and ancestral knowledge. Activities may include cultural classes, storytelling, historical preservation efforts, educational presentations, youth cultural enrichment programs, and community engagement initiatives that support cultural continuity and respect for Native American identity.

What it reported doing in 2025

Cultural retreat event to teach culture, heritage, history dance, arts and crafts held as an education event

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.

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -52.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 91.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.