Indigenous Conservation Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922809100
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2024127942
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $515,493
- Expenses
- $447,406
- Assets
- $319,327
- Liabilities
- $11,297
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA ANN EHRENREICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MELISSA ANN EHRENREICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $139,958 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build the capacity of tribal nations to rematriate and care for their lands in a manner that reinforces sovereignty and self-determination.
What it reported doing in 2025
The icc is a place for learning and development of shared approaches and resources that support indigenous-led rematriation. Icc is focused on creating a safe space for learning exploring four pillars of our work: good agreements, seeing & awareness, good relations, and funding in the future. Good agreements & good relationships enhance the use of and support for sovereignty-led solutions for rematriation. Support leadership, training, and partnerships to protect and care for ancestral lands.(continued on schedule o)seeing & awareness boost the capability of tribal nations to harness their sovereignty to sense and protect ancestral landscapes from emerging threats. Support tribal members with policy analysis and knowledge including industrial development and climate impacts that threaten wildlife, water, and cultural resourcesfast & fluid funding create the flexible resources, both funding and non-extractive financing, need to rematriate ancestral landscapes. Support tribal staff with technical assistance on grant proposals to rematriate ancestral lands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th 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; 64th 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 13.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 152.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $292K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.