Native Wellness Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202570037
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gresham, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036667669
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,573,367
- Expenses
- $1,510,241
- Assets
- $63,126
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jillene Joseph (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jillene Joseph (Executive Director): $86,400 total reported compensation
- Shannon Kissinger (Project Director): $81,600 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 Native Wellness Institute provides wellness and healing related training and technical assistance to Indian tribes and organizations that is based in Native culture that keeps the teachings of our ancestors alive.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Native Wellness Institute provided training both virtual and and in person trainings to Indian tribes, urban Native organizations and others. NWI offered weekly "Native Wellness Power Hours" at no cost as a way to offer mental well-being support and those continue to be offered for free once a week. Each Power Hour is saved on NWI's You Tube channel. Over 550 have been offered. NWI offered a total of 8 online training sessions where 10 facilitators were used and over 500 people attended. In addition, 9 in person training sessions were held where 10 facilitators were used and nearly 1,000 participants attended. NWI also provided 95 training sessions in tribal and/or urban Native organizations or other agencies. On average, two facilitators were used for each training and training topics included the following: healthy relationships, wellness in the workplace, adults working with Native youth, Gathering of Native Americans, moving through grief and loss, self care, youth leadership, being an ally in Indian Country, being trauma and healing informed and other specifically designed related topics for communities. NWI charges registration fees for participants attending training and charges communities and/or agencies a fee to provide the training to their staff. Many scholarships are given for those that can't pay and other free resources are provided and made available as well. Some of the trainings are training of trainers where each participants receives a copy of NWI's curriculum. Other trainings that are not training of trainers, particpants receive a handout packet.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.