Tyonek Tribal Conservation District

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 270671847
IRS 990 coverage: 2012–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location: Anchorage, AK, USA
Phone: 9072781022
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue: $4,213,366
Expenses: $4,058,809
Assets: $4,759,089
Liabilities: $4,158,054

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Highest reported compensation

LAURIE STUART (EXECUTIVE DI): $136,615 total reported compensation
NICOLE SWENSON (HABITAT PROR): $117,977 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 conserve, enhance, and encourage the wise use of natural resources. Ttcd's core values are to meet the needs of our stakeholders and to foster cooperative relationships.

What it reported doing in 2025

Habitat monitoring and restoration program - through this program, ttcd monitors and restores fish and wildlife habitat. This program is funded in partnership with the us fish & wildlife service, the usda natural resources conservation service, tyonek native corporation, national oceanic atmospheric administration, cook inlet regional inc, and multiple other partners. Ttcd coordinates a pike task force and works with partners to remove invasive pike from the district; implements invasive species projects and networks for terrestrial and aquatic plants; works with partners to improve salmon habitat by removing fish passage barriers through culvert replacements; monitors stream temperature and juvenile salmon populations in tyonek and beluga through the tyonek watershed action plan; and completes submissions to adfg's anadromous waterways catalog officially documenting juvenile and adult salmon data in the district.

Operating model

Revenue model: Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 84
Transparency & Controls: 92
Accountability: 91
Sustainability: 36
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: Limited
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.9M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 10 people listed
Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
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.
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.