Native Conservancy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300131766
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Cordova, AK, USA
- Phone
- (424) 732-3276
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Land Resources Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,588,663
- Expenses
- $3,588,478
- Assets
- $3,422,344
- Liabilities
- $1,782,745
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLEN DUNE LANKARD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GLEN DUNE LANKARD (PRESIDENT): $169,727 total reported compensation
- DAMIEN SCOBIE (FINANCE/OPS): $144,222 total reported compensation
- WENDELL DADULLA (CHIEF WELDER): $118,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To protect and restore Native lands and waters while advancing regenerative solutions rooted in Indigenous values.
What it reported doing in 2024
Peopleback: peopleback focuses on food sovereignty, food security, and contributing traditional practices in line with cultural restoration programming in support of indigenous elders and community members. Through monthly distributions, frozen subsistence foods and prepared meals were provided to support nutritional security and the preservation of traditional foods. These distributions have also been shared outside of the organization's base of operations, reaching communities throughout Alaska. Peopleback also advanced a cultural carving initiative through the transport and storage of two yellow cedar logs to cordova, Alaska, for future healing pole development. The organization coordinated logistics, and community consultation with elders, cultural practitioners, and tribal leaders to ensure the project is grounded in traditional knowledge and cultural protocols.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $170K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.