Mak-Warep Ohlone Land Conservancy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994522401
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Albany, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5104595951
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $716,146
- Expenses
- $83,905
- Assets
- $693,231
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vincent Medina (President)
People named in this filing
- Vincent Medina (President)
- Louis Trevino (Treasurer)
- Deirdre Greene (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate about ohlone culture
What it reported doing in 2025
A cultural entity, mak-warep Ohlone Land Conservancy Inc (MWOLC) provides representation for the greater Ohlone community, the indigenous people of the San Francisco Bay Area, while simultaneously educating the public about the value of its living culture and specific land-based practices that come from it.Its primary purpose is to provide education about Ohlone culture past and present. MWOLC's work corrects outdated stereotypes and uplifts a truthful narrative of the historical conditions that shape the present day. To promote this effort, MWOLC is engaging in a project of land reacquisition and restoration. Funds raised by the organization will be used to purchase East Bay land on which to create a thriving culinary and education center, gardens, and demonstration spaces based on place-based, time-tested, hyper-localized land management practices that are integral to the restoration and sustained health of the land in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project envisions a series of native gardens with interconnected trails leading to several restaurant spaces serving traditional Ohlone cuisine. Acreage around these public offerings will be used as space for Ohlone people to be together to harvest traditional plants, to implement cultural burns, to cultivate basketry materials, and to celebrate cultural practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.5%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 38.6%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 88.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.26; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 168.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 167.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.5% of revenue deployed · 38.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 5/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.