Oyate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943120414
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7079966700
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,835
- Expenses
- $50,717
- Assets
- $99,104
- Liabilities
- $3,184
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBETTE ANN DIAS (President)
- JANET KING (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ROBETTE ANN DIAS (President)
- JANET KING (Vice President)
- JUDY DOW (Secretary/Treas)
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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Oyate is a native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly. For native children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. It is a matter of survival. For all children, it is time to learn that truth of history. Only in this way will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.our work includes evaluating texts, resource materials and fiction by and about native peoples; conducting teacher workshops in which participants learn to evaluate chilren's material for anti-indian biases; administering a small resource center and library; and distributing books and materials with and emphasis on writing and illustration by native people to children, young adults and teachers.we hope, by making many good books available, to encourage many more, especially from native writers and illustrators. Oyate is the dakota word for p
What it reported doing in 2013
Conducted workshops with native organizations and community members, and native and non-native teachers and librarians on how to evaluate children's books and curriculum for honest and accurate portrayals of native peoples. Continued working with over 600 school librarians in partnership with the Montana office of public instruction and school libraries across the country.worked with native parents to develop "living stories" section on web site.continue work on a supplement to the publication, 'a broken flute: the native experience in books for children'. The original publication received the following awards: american book award 2007, word craft circle of native writers and storytellers writer of the year award 2007, skipping stones honor award for multi cultural literature 2006.evaluated and critiqued children's books and materials; reviewed materials for multi cultural review and other journals.maintained a web site containing reviews of recommended books and materials, and "books to avoid".maintained and administered a research and resource room for the benefit of parents, students and teachers in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -220.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -41.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2011 to 2013
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.