Oyate Hotanin
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300941753
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122630739
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,608
- Expenses
- $94,459
- Assets
- $58,967
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Crystal Norcross (President)
- Tom LaBLanc (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Laura LaBlanc (Director of Operations)
- Crystal Norcross (President)
- Tom LaBLanc (Executive Director)
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
Our mission is: To lead a movement for the next 500 years that supports a new era of art, healing, and change. Since 2014, we have been amplifying American Indian thought, voices, and perspectives to complete the missing narratives that hamper deep understanding of our society, spark conversations that bridge divides, and spur action that drives transformation. We create, host, and promote artistic events that draw on our history as the first and most powerful stewards of this nation, building a coalition of individuals and communities that use art, laughter, conversation, and collaborative creativity to heal and transform society one story at a time.
What it reported doing in 2025
A) a) Society of Mother Earth (S.O.M.E): Connecting Land and People through Indigenous Thought for Climate Rescue. We followed a steady approach to achieve our goals. Monthly meetings of the leadership team gave us the center we needed to follow the path we had laid out for ourselves with this project. In many ways we exceeded our goals in ways that are hard to quantify, but we were moved by the quality of the intentions and people who rose up to join us all along the way. Highlights and examples of project outcomes for Buffalo Show; Flower Power; Wilder Buffalo Rides; Special Events; Repair Circles; Climate Grief Heling Circles; and online engagement: Outcome: Expand Number of people engaged: Artists Engaged for paid opportunities - 71 Healing Circles - 12 Buffalo Show Audience - 282 Total Online Audience Engagement: +3,100 YouTube, FB, IG
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
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: -69.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- 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 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.