River Newe Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
993158531
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Pocatello, ID, USA
Phone
2082448499
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$166,992
Expenses
$139,797
Assets
$180,815
Liabilities
$2,329

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALEX ALVAREZ (President)
  • EVELYN GALLOWAY (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • SAMMY L MATSAW (Director)
  • JESSICA M MATSAW (Director)
  • BRANT G MILLER (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

River Newe is a Community-Driven Mission: Our elders are our knowledge keepers & our youth see the world in a new way.We promote and advocate intergenerational learning experiences within Shoshone-Bannock Traditional Knowledge and Teachings. This takes place in our traditional spaces, places, wild landscapes and rivers through four values Honor, Protect, Restore, & Heal.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 we successfully conducted two Middle Fork of the Salmon River trips. One was with programming for Indigenous youth and teachers. The other trip was our first Guide Healing trip to support guides who work on the Middle Fork. We also facilitated field trips to significant cultural sites for youth from local schools on the Fort Hall Reservation. We facilitated teacher professional development activities for local teachers using Land Based Pedagogies. Our nonprofit is maturing and we spent a significant amount of time working on our foundational structures (i.e., accounting, policies and procedures, fundraising, and staffing).

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.2%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 107.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.2% of revenue deployed · 61.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.