Tule River Economic Development Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770262973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Porterville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592020417
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-1,039,362
- Expenses
- $34,783
- Assets
- $8,732,474
- Liabilities
- $1,263,315
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Neil Peyron (Chairman)
- Lester Neito (Director)
- Franklin Carabay (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To encourage, organize, and execute economic development projects for the Tule River Indian Tribe and give tribal members a place for employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -103.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 251.06; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.