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← ESSELEN TRIBE OF MONTEREY COUNTY

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by ESSELEN TRIBE OF MONTEREY COUNTY.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,351,277
Total expenses
$546,873
Contributions and grants received
$981,222
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$371,378
Investment income
$7
Other revenue
-$1,330
Total assets, end of year
$5,477,322
Total liabilities, end of year
$50,000
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,427,322
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$415,590
Management and general expenses
$109,324
Fundraising expenses
$21,959
Program service expenses (Part III)
$415,590

Program services were 76.0% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $981,222

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Honorariums

    total $300 · related or exempt $300

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Lineage/Heritage Research

    total $275 · related or exempt $275

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Project Management

    total $121,316 · related or exempt $121,316

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Tribal Monitoring

    total $249,487 · related or exempt $249,487

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $7 · excluded $7

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $1,330

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$1,330 · unrelated business -$1,330

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $103,562 · program services $51,889 · management and general $51,673

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $230,926 · program services $230,926

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $9,647 · program services $9,647

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $35,702 · program services $35,702

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,436 · management and general $10,436

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $21,808 · fundraising $21,808

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $26,595 · program services $5,174 · management and general $21,421

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $151 · fundraising $151

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,824 · program services $2,824

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $8,881 · management and general $8,881

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $10,300 · management and general $10,300

  • 17 · Travel

    total $395 · management and general $395

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $25,647 · program services $25,647

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,022 · management and general $6,022

  • 24a · Other expenses: Cal Fire Expenses - Non Wages

    total $19,934 · program services $19,934

  • 24b · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $15,774 · program services $15,774

  • 24c · Other expenses: Education Expenses

    total $14,670 · program services $14,670

  • 24d · Other expenses: Honorarium

    total $2,000 · program services $2,000

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,599 · program services $1,403 · management and general $196

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $79,249 · end of year $448,453

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

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

    $5,054,516

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

    $25,647

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $4,545,000 · end of year $5,028,869

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,331

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    end of year $50,000

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,622,918 · end of year $5,427,322

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To preserve and protect our cultural heritage and ancestral sacred sites, namely the esselen, rumsen, chalone, sureno, chunchunes and guatcharrone people, which includes but is not limited to the villages of achasta, chalon, echilat, ensen, excelen, esselenajan, ixchenta, johopan, kuchun, pachepas, sargenta-ruc, soccoranda, and tucutnut, located within sacred pre-historic and historic tribal lands of monterey County, California.

  • To preserve, perpetuate and promote native american traditions, culture, language and tribal governance in california.

    Expenses $415,590 · Revenue $371,378

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jana Nason

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $85,609
    From this org
    $85,609
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Heidi Park

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $12,528
    From this org
    $12,528
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Cari Herthel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,425
    From this org
    $5,425
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tom Little Bear Nason

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristen Lovell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Nault

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 May 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.1
Source object
202541349349310859

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