Haida Roots
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842997493
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067906386
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,366
- Expenses
- $81,374
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sondra Cunningham (CEO/President)
People named in this filing
- Sondra Cunningham (CEO/President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Haida Roots is committed to preserving the endangered Haida language (Alaskan dialect) for future generations. Our mission is to connect community members living in the Seattle area to the Haida language and culture through programs and opportunities created by Haida Roots. Along with keeping our ancient cultural ways alive, we support the creative evolution of new Haida music, art and books. Haida Roots also supports cultural groups that have the same mission of Preserving Endangered Indigenous Languages. At Haida Roots, we keep our ancestral ways alive through strong community ties, creating language learning opportunities, curriculum/literary development, song & dance, storytelling, art, traditional regalia making & more. As we do our work, we keep this goal in mind: 2nd language learners will speak our ancient tongue & will nurture the new generations of 1st language Haida speakers.
What it reported doing in 2024
"Sealaska would like to extend our appreciation to for your commitment to revitalizing the Xaad Kil language. We were encouraged to receive your application requesting support for your language program. I am pleased to share that Sealaskas board of directors voted to award $25,000 to your program." With these funds: We worked on translating more songs and stories, created and recorded new Haida songs, made videos of Elders speaking Haida, paid an apprentice to work with Haida language teachers and Elders, paid an Elder/teacher.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.6%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -34.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.6% of revenue deployed · 30.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.