Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
020490723
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hanover, NH, USA
Phone
8026498870
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,088
Expenses
$51,814
Assets
$698,832
Liabilities
$18,257

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wanda Pockett (President / Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Wanda Pockett (President / Treasurer)
  • George Gill Ducharme (Secretary)
  • Patty Manning (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To protect and care for the land, life and traditional ways of Indigenous peoples.

What it reported doing in 2024

Archives, Library, & Research Center & research Projects: Work to help Native families and communities document family histories, protect sites and burial grounds, preserve and pass on our cultural traditions, and sustain our Indigenous languages continues. Many research and archiving efforts continue as we care for and expand into our our new, fully accessible home. Many families and communities have entrusted their oral and family histories, traditions, understandings, and visions to the Center. They are encouraging the next generations to visit and carry on their learning and the strengthening of the past for future generations to come.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.49; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -31.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -45.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.