Zuya Wicasa Ta Otipi Warriors Lodge Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992595039
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,000
- Expenses
- $59,616
- Assets
- $52,082
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chance White Eagle (President CEO)
- Jose Arguello (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Chance White Eagle (President CEO)
- Jose Arguello (Vice President)
- Chris White Eagle (Treasurer)
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
Zuya Wicasa Ta OTipi Warriors Lodge provides transitional living wraparound support case management and culturally grounded workforce development to young Native men in the Rapid City South Dakota area and surrounding Lakota communities. The organization exists to create an environment where healing responsibility and the discovery of personal purpose can take root. Warriors Lodge believes that when a young man heals from the trauma the substances the decisions that brought him here and reconnects with who he is as a Lakota man his chances of building a stable meaningful life increase significantly. The goal is not simply sobriety or employment. It is transformation: taking the skills forged out of survival and resilience and redirecting them into a life of purpose and meaning a life worth living. This work is carried out through traditional Lakota values outdoor education life-skills programming and direct community service.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program 3: Workforce Development Rooted in Healing & Cultural Identity Warriors Lodge redefines workforce development. This is not job training in the conventional sense. It is a structured pathway that begins with healing from trauma and the reclamation of Indigenous identity and builds toward a life of self-sufficiency contribution and dignity. Workforce development programming includes: Life-skills development grounded in traditional Lakota values responsibility community and the Seven Lakota Values Whekiye Wohola Wwakhe Wwaiyapi Wka Wksape Whatognake Outdoor education and experiential learning programs that rebuild confidence teamwork and physical and emotional wellness Mentorship and community service pathways that allow participants to give back and develop leadership identity Navigation of employment education and vocational resources once participants have built the internal foundation to engage them sustainably Youth programming that reaches the next generation before trauma becomes entrenched building cultural pride and life purpose from an early age The core belief of Warriors Lodge is that a person cannot build a sustainable livelihood until they have first built a reason to live a life worth living. From that foundation all else becomes possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.