Native Movement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680535413
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9073280528
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,914,269
- Expenses
- $9,846,883
- Assets
- $13,623,017
- Liabilities
- $772,462
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PRINCESS JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- MALINDA CHASE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ENEI PETER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ENEI PETER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $119,593 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH MALBERT (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $108,914 total reported compensation
- BARBARA KAHULA (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ACCOUNTING): $85,192 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to engage community members to ensure indigenous peoples' rights, the rights of mother earth, and the building of healthy and sustainable communities for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Native movement carries out our actions rooted in ceremony, justice, and love to build regenerative communities for all. We work throughout Alaska to support grassroots-led projects that ensure social justice, indigenous peoples' rights, and the rights of mother earth.native movement has three intersectional approaches: 1) the action and advocacy program carries out campaigns on issues of environmental justice, climate justice, and gender justice; 2)the movement infrastructure program provides direct support to emerging grassroots community initiatives through administrative support and resource sharing; 3) the community education program provides numerous workshops and trainings, as well as facilitation of dialogues that build alignment, skills, and strong collaborations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.6%; rating input score 91; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.5% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 44 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 35 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.