Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860884516
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Phone
9285220159
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$199,670
Expenses
$178,095
Assets
$54,453
Liabilities
$712

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD MCKENZIE (President)
  • CATIE BLAZEK (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • RICHARD MCKENZIE (President)
  • CATIE BLAZEK (Vice President)
  • SUZANNE TACKITT (Secretary)

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

Exclusively for literary, educational and charitable purposes in encouraging and promoting celtic culture through music, dance and art

What it reported doing in 2025

The biggest event of the year is the annual highland games that brings in approximately 15,000 participants including guest artists, clans, vendors and celtic sports events and workshops including seperate events and educational opportunities for children. There is also a seperate piping school that takes place during the week of the games. Throughout the year, the organization conducts several classes and workshops on piping, fiddle, penny whistle and irish and scottish dance. In february the organization holds a supper and event to commemorate the well known poet robert burns with traditional scottish music and food. In march we celebrate the welsh st. Davids day with traditional welsh music and food. Also in march we celebrate tea with diana gabledon who does a reading from her outlander series and has become an increasing popular event wolrd wide. Each year we celebrate st. Patricks day and tarten day. We participate in the fourth of july parade. The organization does have a brochure and a calender of events that is available on the web-site www.nachs.info

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $161K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.