Sovereignty Rises
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332348241
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063956402
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,000
- Expenses
- $51,071
- Assets
- $28,929
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Neil Takemoto (Board Director, Executive Director)
- Carma Corcoran (Board Director, President)
People named in this filing
- Neil Takemoto (Board Director, Executive Director)
- Carma Corcoran (Board Director, President)
- Kenny Tolbert (Board Director, Treasurer)
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
Sovereignty Rises is a 501c3 Native-led organization that supports new opportunities for cultural, health, and economic sovereignty in communities impacted by systems of oppression through community-driven systems change.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sovereignty Rises advances Native-led housing, economic development, and community well-being through culturally grounded capacity building and technical assistance. During the reporting year, the organization focused on developing the Native Housing Sovereignty Initiative, which supports Tribal Nations and Native organizations in becoming CDFI-ready housing developers. Activities included coordinating partnerships with Tribal communities, housing organizations, and financial institutions; facilitating planning for community-based housing projects; and advancing workforce development pathways in regenerative construction. The organization also supported early-stage development of the Green Buffalo Housing Initiative in partnership with the Lower Sioux Indian Community, contributing to project planning, stakeholder alignment, and exploration of sustainable housing approaches. In addition, Sovereignty Rises initiated development of an Indigenous behavioral wellness framework to support housing workforce participants, integrating culturally grounded practices into program design. Through these efforts, the organization strengthened community capacity, expanded partnerships, and advanced scalable models for Native-led housing development and long-term economic stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.