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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by WISDOM OF THE ELDERS INCORPORATED.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 6 March 2026. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue
$809,365 changed to $411,061
Total expenses
$945,504 changed to $698,609
Contributions and grants received
$430,914 changed to $411,061
Program service revenue
$378,451 changed to $0
Total assets, end of year
$154,748 changed to $97,572
Total liabilities, end of year
$29,142 changed to $23,346
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$125,606 changed to $74,226
Program services expenses
$646,907 changed to $423,082
Management and general expenses
$295,612 changed to $275,527
Fundraising expenses
$2,985 changed to $0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$646,907 changed to $423,082

Listed only on the earlier return

  • C Holycross
  • Jennifer Cairo

Listed only on the later return

  • Charlene Holycross
  • Jenn Cairo

Totals

Total revenue
$809,365
Total expenses
$945,504
Contributions and grants received
$430,914
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$378,451
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$154,748
Total liabilities, end of year
$29,142
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$125,606
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$646,907
Management and general expenses
$295,612
Fundraising expenses
$2,985
Program service expenses (Part III)
$646,907

Program services were 68.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $63,559

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $367,355

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $7,920

  • 2a · Program service revenue: workforce developm

    total $378,451 · related or exempt $378,451

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $53,660 · management and general $53,660

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $447,489 · program services $349,729 · management and general $97,760

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $91,269 · program services $68,876 · management and general $22,393

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $54,770 · program services $37,887 · management and general $16,883

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $588 · management and general $588

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $140,459 · program services $54,098 · management and general $86,361

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $32,982 · program services $31,132 · management and general $850 · fundraising $1,000

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $14,904 · program services $13,588 · management and general $1,066 · fundraising $250

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,444 · program services $4,140 · management and general $1,734 · fundraising $1,570

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,562 · program services $1,056 · management and general $3,506

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $9,628 · program services $1,628 · management and general $8,000

  • 17 · Travel

    total $12,415 · program services $12,412 · management and general $3

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $507 · program services $86 · management and general $421

  • 20 · Interest

    total $537 · program services $537

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $7,691 · program services $7,691

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $24,158 · program services $24,158

  • 24a · Other expenses: supplies

    total $32,179 · program services $31,984 · management and general $30 · fundraising $165

  • 24b · Other expenses: license and fees

    total $3,644 · program services $2,783 · management and general $861

  • 24c · Other expenses: memberships subscriptions

    total $6,434 · program services $4,938 · management and general $1,496

  • 24d · Other expenses: misc

    total $184 · program services $184

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $149,177 · end of year $113,415

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $137,390 · end of year $20,866

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $109,116

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $89,031

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $5,786 · end of year $20,085

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $595 · end of year $382

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $17,783 · end of year -$2,829

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $6,185 · end of year $22,110

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,235 · end of year $9,861

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $261,745 · end of year $125,606

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Mission Native American cultural sustainability, multimedia education and race reconciliation

Activities or mission (Part I)

Record, preserve & share Native American oral history,cultural arts,language concepts,& traditional ecological knowledge of exemplary indigenous elders,storytellers

  • Workforce development Develpe social venture to provide a holistic

    Expenses $481,348 · Revenue $493,985

  • Production of a series of Native American climate documentaries

    Expenses $165,559

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jennifer Cairo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • A Alvarado

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • C Holycross

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Don Motanic

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Teresa Montana

    Executive Dire

    Total calculated
    $53,660
    From this org
    $53,660
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • Wisdom Workforce Developeme

    environmenttraining · OR · income $350,437 · assets $60,130

    Directly controlled by Wisdom of The

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
15 May 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202523219349328417

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