Friends of Puvungna

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872306135
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
7148240398
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,972
Expenses
$38,901
Assets
$87,908
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REBECCA ROBLES (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHELLE CASTILLO (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • REBECCA ROBLES (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHELLE CASTILLO (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • EMILY GUILLEN (TREASURER)

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

Friends of Puvungna's initial task was to stop development on Puvungna. Ourgoal is to restore the Puvungna site and promote a place for tribal healing and spiritual growth. The lawsuit settlement allows us to remove the construction soils deposited on the site The soils have been documented to be contaminated with arsenic. We are working with soils engineers to develop a plan forsoils removal. We are working to develop a plan to do plantings with native plants that reduce contaminants in the soilto make removal less toxic. The State Historic Preservation Office of California has sent letters documenting that the soil weight is damaging this prehistoric village.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our activities are and have been to protect, restore and promote the village of Puvungna. we are practicing our religious and ceremonial freedoms at Puyungna by gathering as indigenous people for private and public events. Our purpose is to serve the Aciachemem, Tongva, and other tribal nations as well as the public to restore the sacred site of Puvungna and to educate the public focusing on tribal members. Activities will be accomplished by Friends ofPuvungna, allies and supponers. Activities include a stewardship program for daily land checks, monthly clean ups, prayer rallies, prayer runs, traditional ceremonies, teach-ins, public outreach, media interviews and speakers for student and public events to name a few.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 41.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.26; rating input score 68; 68th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.