People of the Sacred Land
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872302728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Broomfield, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7207246453
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $433,450
- Expenses
- $199,476
- Assets
- $517,992
- Liabilities
- $4,919
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK GOGGLES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DI): $55,120 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support american indian people who are citizens of the state of Colorado and those whose homelands are in Colorado to preserve their culture, language, and ways of life that were intimately tied to the land.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the people of the sacred land worked with narf regarding their representation of the northern cheyenne and northern arapaho. Psl worked with the cu legal intern team to host a roundtable discussion on legal issues. Psl worked with the denver city and county cultural center & embassy project. The cultural embassy bond measure passed, approving a 20 million bond. Psl continued an ongoing educational commitment related to the Colorado land board. Psl worked with church groups that expressed interest in collecting a 1.5% donation from the proceeds of church property sales. Psl supported the northern utes, who are alleging discrimination in the application of fees for access to state parks. Psl's research recently found additional evidence where the indian agent testifies at a congressional hearing in the spring of 1865 that there was a clear difference between the southern and northern nations. Additionally, in 2025, psl commissioned the trec documentary. Psl hosted a community gathering on the winter solstice, where we discussed the 150/250 celebration events and information about the embassy. We fed over 100 community members, and all of them said they hoped we could continue holding community meetings about activities that affect them. Psl completed a plan to assist with distributing buffalo from the city and county of boulder to native non-profits and nations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.4%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $69.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 48.5%; rating input score 48; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.6; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.4% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.