North Pole Community Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920101213
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- North Pole, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9079872665
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,967
- Expenses
- $100,814
- Assets
- $477,523
- Liabilities
- $626
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Howard S Rixie Sr (President, Back-up WC Asst Host)
- Teresa Renson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Karen Lane (Managing Welcome Center Host): $37,570 total reported compensation
- Howard S Rixie Sr (President, Back-up WC Asst Host): $4,894 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 North Pole Community Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1986 to serve as a traditional small town chamber of commerce; to promote business activity and economic development in Interior Alaska with an emphasis on North Pole and the surrounding area
What it reported doing in 2025
711320. Construct/Operate a Welcome Center, which will operate year round, offering services which will truly empower new residents and others to live and thrive in the greater North Pole community by addressing the following needs: Welcome Services clearinghouse for new residents; Workforce development workshops; Small business development workshops; Promote entrepreneurship and commerce; Foster transition from home-based biz to brick & mortar; Bolster opportunities for a community meeting place; and promote mental health/family resiliency and a safe space for residents and visitors. Conduct/host over 150 community events that nurture community spirit/morale, and induce mental health resiliency across the population; while focusing on three mission sets: 1. Offering welcome/relocation services to new residents; 2: Offering development services for existing and new businesses; and 3. Fostering a ready to work labor force.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 26.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.74; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -35.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 73 of 73 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.