Natives in VetMed
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991337812
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Phone
- 8176730280
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Veterinary Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,075
- Expenses
- $31,762
- Assets
- $68,513
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lecia Mata (President)
People named in this filing
- Avery Tilley (Treasurer)
- Lecia Mata (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance Indigenous representation in veterinary medicine; to foster connections among Indigenous professionals; to support Indigenous veterinary students; to cultivate Indigenous leadership within the veterinary profession; to centralize networking opportunities
What it reported doing in 2025
These grants cover the cost of Indigenous students' participation in veterinary conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 66% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,854.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -195.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.