NomoGaia
Legal name: Nomogaia Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331203791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 1-303-514-1522
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,367
- Expenses
- $105,237
- Assets
- $74,872
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kendyl Salcito (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Mark Wielga (Director)
- Kendyl Salcito (Executive Director)
- Elizabeth Wise (Trustee)
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
NomoGaia is a 501c3 nonprofit research organisation focused on how human rights standards work in real projects and supply chains. We make 'respect for human rights' practical through tools, templates, and evidence grounded in the UN Guiding Principles and field-tested due diligence methods—covering risk scoping, impact assessment, meaningful engagement, and effective remedy—so organisations can prevent harm, respond when harm occurs, and improve over time.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grievances: Completed data analysis, developed reporting for 2026 publication regarding 2,600 complaints received by Colombian gold mining project proponent that is displacing artisanal miners and resettling villagers. Work is now expanding as the project moves into development phase. Security risks are increasing necessitating greater care and expense during work.
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 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 53%; rating input score 53
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: -206.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 53% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.