The Hopi Foundation Lomasumi'nangwtukwsiwmani

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742488628
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Kykotsmovi, AZ, USA
Phone
9287342380
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ethnic, Immigrant Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,065,205
Expenses
$1,796,980
Assets
$4,545,362
Liabilities
$247,302

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MONICA NUVAMSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • HANNAH HONANI (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MONICA NUVAMSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $98,082 total reported compensation
  • HANNAH HONANI (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $64,999 total reported compensation
  • RENALDA JACKSON (CONTROLLER): $55,523 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To maintain, preserve, revitalize, and generate activities in hopi and indigenous cultures both for the benefit of the members of those cultures and for the benefit of all humankind, including the dominant surrounding cultures.

What it reported doing in 2024

The hopi opportunity youth initiative - hoyi is a community-wide collaboration of youth, parents, service providers, and community leaders engaged in research and development to improve the educational, career, and cultural attainment of all hopi and tewa youth ages 14-26. Hoyi serves over 1,700 hopi youth and young adults on the hopi reservation through its programming activities. Hoyi supports new and existing youth initiatives through its role as a facilitator and convener in the development of initiatives that are identified by youth in the community. Through collaboration with youth and local service providers, hoyi leads the development of three pathways that support the broad vision of our youth. The pathways, unique to our hopi youth, include the creation of mentoring services and opportunities, service learning for career exploration and advancement, as well as strengthening the cultural well-being of our youth. The pathway development utilizes data collected by hoyi and continues to inform strategies that will demonstrate long-term impacts. Hoyi also leads a community-based approach to collecting youth perspectives on the education, career, and cultural attainment of the local youth community. The hoyi program went into dormancy in 2022 and remained in dormancy throughtout 2024 to re-evaluate its trajectory in community work coming out of the covid-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, hoyi remained active in maintaining existing partnerships and collaborative efforts and is currently exploring the changing landscape of youth development, direct service of partners, and the rise in mental health issues among the youth due to the pandemic. An impact report is being prepared to further define what has occurred and highlight hoyi's work from 2013 to the end of 2021. The impact report will be shared with our youth, community partners, families, and stakeholders.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 95.9%; rating input score 96; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -68.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.