Goldbelt Heritage Foundation

What it reported doing in 2024

The program descriptions below describe those activities funded in part by federal financial assistance awarded to the foundation in the form of multi-year grants. These grants commenced in 2022 and will continue through 2028. The current active restricted awards and grants, which there were ten (10), in 2024 provided support for the four programming areas outside of operations for ghf: lingt language department, education department, youth department, and culture & arts department. The lingt language department's focus of activities, including achieving the approved goals of the restricted awards and grants, is documentation, preservation, and revitalization of the lingt language. Including but not limited to producing new language publications, advanced reference materials, language teacher professional development, recording oral histories and interviews, and support spaces for language use. Ghf actively participates in regular meetings for leaders in language revitalization, facilitated by the Alaska association of school boards. These meetings have fostered a coalition dedicated to language revitalization (see attached language declaration), united by a shared commitment to revitalizing language and knowledge. The coalition implements a unified approach to developing fluent speakers and collaborates to create resources for language teachers and learners. The language department programs are kxde yaa nas.x haa yoo x'atngi (our language is echoing back), focusing on preservation and documentation with birth speakers, including drafting a new lingt language dictionaries through funding provided by sealaska; koo at latoowux guxsatee haa yatx'i (our children will become teachers) providing language teacher professional development in two school districts and positive youth development with the dream navigators curriculum funded through the office of indian education; and has du jeed gaxtoote, haa dachxnx siteeyi aa (we will hand it to those who are our grandchildren) running language development programs for emerging and future teachers, along with culturally-relevant curriculum implementation developed by ghf. The ghf education department primarily develops, publishes, and implements new curricula that support the lingt language, arts, and sciences activities of the organization, and liaises with the educational community. The specific programs overseen by the ghf education department are yee yeex? Kawdliyas' (a lap was made for you all), which provides professional development for the juneau school district teachers through a partnership with artful teaching initiative serving over 200 teachers annually, and positive youth development with supporting juneau school district after- school programming, such as the native youth council and the ghf youth group funded by the department of education; haa shuk tundatani (our ancestors' ways of thinking, learning, and knowing) focuses on publishing new and updated culturally-relevant place-based curricula with a total of 45 units in 2024, and publishing to-date 5 of 9 lingt language books for children; and the department develops the curricula across all ghf departments as all of our federal grants have a goals of publishing new curriculum related to the grants' objectives. The department also participates in quarterly meetings with the juneau school district advisory committee and is the liaison for ghf for all school district and university partnerships. The ghf youth departments conduct in-school and after-school activities from pre-kindergarten through high school, with the board's aim of promoting positive youth development, wellness, school readiness, and suicide prevention. This department oversees the ghf youth program and community-based youth events, such as the biennial ghf youth canoe journey, which takes place as part of the sealaska celebration held in even years, and the unity group community fairs. The programs under this department are the aforementioned ghf youth gr

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $164.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • 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: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 18.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings