Natives Rising Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921022768
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3194505367
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,401
- Expenses
- $470,517
- Assets
- $432,135
- Liabilities
- $3,200
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIELLE FORWARD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIELLE FORWARD (CEO): $186,861 total reported compensation
- MADISON MATHIS (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $150,183 total reported compensation
- BETSY FORE (DIRECTOR): $52,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to holistically empower indigenous people by combining economic opportunities in technology and entrepreneurship with wellness education.
What it reported doing in 2025
The women in tech fellowship provided year-round mentorship, career coaching, and job readiness training to 40 indigenous college women pursuing technology degrees. Fellows received personalized interview preparation, resume and linkedin coaching, and technical skill development. Key outcomes included fellows securing internships and roles at microsoft, google, apple, and sandia national labs. Program highlights included an internship preparation event with waymo's senior university recruiter and a career panel featuring hiring leaders from nvidia, google, meta, and shipt. Fellows reported increased confidence, stronger interview skills, and greater clarity in their career paths.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,229.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -125.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -53.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $338K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.