Onkwe Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834695446
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Hogansburg, NY, USA
Phone
3157051170
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$76,650
Expenses
$70,003
Assets
$6,850

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donna Jock (Co-Director/President)
  • Nelson Jock (Co-Director/President)

People named in this filing

  • Donna Jock (Co-Director/President)
  • Nelson Jock (Co-Director/President)
  • Jazmin Kinerson (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Onkwe is a group of Onkwehonwe (Orininal Peoples-Mohawk name for people-original living being.) Onkwe grop shares, and teaches traditional knowledge inherited from elders regardig farming and gardening techniques, with families an youth of today and all generations to come. To date, Onkwe runs a greenhouse, a community garden, maple syrup production, participats in seed collection and swappling, community food distributions

What it reported doing in 2023

A Traditional medicine gathern was held at Generations Parkthat gathered traditional medicine educators and the communityfor 2 days. They also learned about food prep and harvesting.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 99.1%; rating input score 99

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: 8.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -114.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2023
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.