Xinewh-ding Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923018840
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Hoopa, CA, USA
Phone
6503872251
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$924,644
Expenses
$872,910
Assets
$1,099,766
Liabilities
$847,680

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CRAIG MERRICK (PRESIDENT)
  • ALBERTA SANCHEZ (VICE-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNA HAILEY (CO-DIRECTOR): $90,150 total reported compensation
  • SARA MERRICK (CO-DIRECTOR): $90,150 total reported compensation
  • ERIKA TRACY (CO-DIRECTOR): $64,950 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to reclaim time and space for holistic hupa language resurgence. We aim to cultivate intergenerational healing through reconnecting our people to one another, our language, our culture and our homelands. Our programming focuses on the continued transmission of our language to future generations and the overall wellness of our community.

What it reported doing in 2024

The indigenous language immersion nest is a model that has proven great success for communities across the world at creating new speakers of endangered languages and proven to impact wellness outcomes for the entire community. Targeting this age group will enable us to create a generation of babies who will grow up hearing and speaking hupa language with each other, their teachers and their families. We have seen such amazing progress with our students during our first year including some of the babies speaking their very first words (of any language) in hupa. We served 9 students aged 2 years to 4 years old in a full time program monday-thursday for 5 hours a day, from october 2024 to may 2025. Our curriculum is centered around hupa stories, songs and interactions with the natural world in developmentally appropriate ways conducted primarily in na: tinixwe mixine: whe, the hupa language.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 150.9% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 99.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 138.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $754K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.