Kunsi Keya Tamakoce

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
202540377
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Huntington, VT, USA
Phone
6028824956
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,900
Expenses
$19,192
Assets
$74,471
Liabilities
$1,500

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr Lushanya Echeverria (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Dr Wren Walker Robbin (Co-Chair)
  • Rev Kimberly Bittner (Co-Chair)
  • Rebecca Cariati (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kunsi Keya Tamakoce is a community-supported nonprofit organization dedicated to Indigenous cultural preservation, ceremony, education, land stewardship, and community wellness. Support is received primarily through public donations, grassroots fundraising, community contributions, and small grants supporting ceremonial, educational, and cultural programming.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sundance Ceremony and Cultural Gathering-Kunsi Keya Tamakoce organized and hosted its annual Sundance ceremony and cultural gathering, serving Indigenous, Two-Spirit, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and allied community members through traditional ceremony, prayer, cultural education, and communal care practices. Programming included ceremonial preparation, sacred fire tending, food preparation, community support systems, youth and elder participation, and land-based teachings rooted in Lakota traditions and matriarchal leadership values. The organization provided access to ceremony for participants traveling from multiple regions and offered travel scholarship support to reduce financial barriers for attendance. Serving 60-100 people

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 40
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.7%; rating input score 31
  • Program expense ratio: 55.8%; rating input score 56

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 45%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.88; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.7% of revenue deployed · 55.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.