Native Dads Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464821826
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9163464277
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,201,966
- Expenses
- $1,069,900
- Assets
- $609,575
- Liabilities
- $31,572
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL E DUNCAN (Executive Dir.): $94,396 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NDN provides psychoeducation courses, counseling, advocacy support, community eventsand conferences to Indigenous / Native American communities living in California. NDN trained staff provide culturally centered substance abuse prevention and wellness curricula for Native adults and youth including: Red Road Approaches Sons & Daughters of Tradition Mending Broken Hearts Motherhood and Fatherhood is Sacred Addressing Family Violence and Linking Generations by Strengthening Relationships. Staff have all faced disparities historically, socially, and economically, and are dedicated to creating positive change through comprehensive, well-coordinated, and culturally sensitive services. NDN has assisted participants in their communities to address and overcome disturbing challenges interfering with their optimal well-being. These challenges include: low levels of educational attainment, poverty, unemployment and homelessness, sexually transmitted disease and teen pregnancy, intimate partner a
What it reported doing in 2024
Wellness Programs: Wellness Tour fentanyl/opioid education and NARCAN training ininter-tribal communities, a weekly parenting program and weekly Substance Abuse talking circle. Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 1:1 patients. Went to 4 locations in 1 year: North Fork Rancheria, Stockton, CA, Round Valley Indian Reservation, Barona Indian Reservation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 57% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.9% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $767K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.