Kul Wicasa Wopasi
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810835645
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Lower Brule, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6054731010
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,994
- Expenses
- $135,864
- Assets
- $95,699
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ash Grassrope (Executive Director)
- Charles LaRoche (Board President)
- Lydia Sazue (Board Vice President)
- Rebecca Kennedy Sazue (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ash Grassrope (Executive Director)
- Charles LaRoche (Board President)
- Lydia Sazue (Board Vice 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
Educational Experiences
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Wópasi coordinated a full summer STEM program, hosted weekly cultural workshops, and piloted a youth-run Farmers Market to promote food sovereignty. We mentored interns, provided paid youth stipends, and ran weekly plant and beading supply markets. These programs engaged 25+ youth and over 100 community members.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -9.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $246K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.