Haa Tooch Licheesh

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922105841
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Juneau, AK, USA
Phone
9075864902
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$663,002
Expenses
$292,446
Assets
$391,364
Liabilities
$20,318

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Maha Ati Rebia Nasiah (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Maha Ati Rebia Nasiah (Executive Director): $42,320 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mission & Vision: We envision a socially just community in a reciprocal healthy relationship with the land and with each other. Guided by the wisdom of our ancestors we reckon with injustice and commit to healing and liberation while honoring our interdependence. Together we are imagining and creating a community free from violence.

What it reported doing in 2024

HTL strengthened organizational infrastructure by drafting core policies and procedures and launching as a fully functioning 501c3 on July 1 2024. With this foundation in place HTL partnered with organizations across Alaska to support inclusive and trauma-informed workplaces through sustained learning opportunities and cultural engagement for staff coalition partners and key leaders. This included implementing Reflective Practices to strengthen professional wellbeing accountability and skill-building-supporting professionals to deepen self-awareness shift perspective and create spaces where community healing work is affirmed and supported. HTL also continued offering First Alaskans Institutes facilitator training-supporting more than 100 trained Hosts statewide from schools organizations and communities throughout Alaska. HTL also supported the development of the Lateral KINdness curriculum to strengthen shared language and practice for relational accountability and collective care. HTL also advanced truth racial healing and transformation efforts rooted in healing from boarding school harms through community partnerships and initiatives such as Orange Shirt Day a healing ceremony at the Mayflower School and restorative cemetery clean-up efforts in the wake of Boarding School Tribunals. This work was carried out in partnership with accountability partners including Alaska Quakers Seeking Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples the Juneau Montessori School now located in the Mayflower building and the First Alaskans Institute.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 16
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12.2%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 28
  • 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.9%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12.2% of revenue deployed · 27.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.