Four Points Media Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873592353
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Crow Agency, MT, USA
Phone
4065441245
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$102,815
Expenses
$94,271
Assets
$106,255
Liabilities
$750

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • CARRIE MORAN MCCLEARY (Director)
  • RAE PEPPERS (Director)
  • JORDYNN PAZ (Director)

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 corporation will produce the highest quality investigative and public service journalism and to provide important educational news stories to the people of indian country; the corporation will publish written works that not only entertain, but inform the public of the indigenous experience in authentic and valuable ways; the corporation will produce audio works to lift native voices across the country through various formats; and to engage in any lawful activities that will contribute to the foregoing purpose.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our mission is to work independently and in collaboration to enrich the minds, spirits and lives of those in indian country by producing meaningful stories through the production of timely published written and audio works, through the news website four points press, four points productions podcast network, and four points publishing house. Our program service accomplishments include production of news articles, implementation of our legal ads program, and our year end donation drive.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -47.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.