Wolakota - the Space of Harmony and Power
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 372015710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7345969305
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,947
- Expenses
- $4,947
- Assets
- $2,216
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES MICHAEL RUDY (President & CEO)
- MILAGROS PAREDES (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JAMES MICHAEL RUDY (President & CEO)
- MILAGROS PAREDES (Vice President)
- CAROLYN J CHRISTOPHER (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Financial and social support of native americans
What it reported doing in 2025
Mostly just telephone conversations to do follow up work on the video production of decolonization and typical life experiences of native families. Made support gifts to various lakota families: michelle ashmore, bobbi jo ferguson, arna ashmore and sydney hernandez. Follow up conversations on outcomes with thomas casey and dean harwood who have been active in supporting native women in life crisis and are aware of scams that sometimes take place in this process. Still the same in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.8%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 44.8%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.8% of revenue deployed · 44.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.