Native Women Lead
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863663621
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5054701732
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,471,492
- Expenses
- $777,666
- Assets
- $1,830,833
- Liabilities
- $19,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VERNELLE CHASE (PRESIDENT -INTERIM EXEC. DIREC)
Highest reported compensation
- VERNELLE CHASE (PRESIDENT -INTERIM EXEC. DIREC): $113,937 total reported compensation
- JOAN TIMECHE (CHAIRWOMAN): $634 total reported compensation
- VINA LITTLE OWL (TREASURER/SECRETARY): $500 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 revolutionize systems and inspire innovation by investing in native women in business. We do this by co-creating with and convening our community to build coalition while honoring our culture, creativity and connections.
What it reported doing in 2024
STORY TELLING COMMUNICATIONS - native women lead uplifts our community through story telling by sharing the history, lived experiences and truths of our people. It is important to share the impact of the work we are doing with and in our communities. We do this through a gender lens focus by demonstrating the importance of the many roles that Native women hold as the caretakers, breadwinners, entrepreneurs and leaders of our families and communities. In our efforts to advocate and continue to fundraise for our communities and our work, we are telling our own stories and reclaiming our narrative by focusing on the benefits of not only supporting native women, but the rippling benefits to their families and the communities they are from.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.8%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $90.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 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: 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: 68.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.35; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 159.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 168.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 175.8% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.8% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $637K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $170K reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.