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NATIVE WOMEN LEAD INC

EIN 86-3663621 ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Largest nonprofits in New Mexico

Revenue 2024
$2,471,492
Expenses 2024
$777,666

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S31
Classification
1000
Street
120 MORNINGSIDE DR SE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO REVOLUTIONIZE SYSTEMS AND INSPIRE INNOVATION BY INVESTING IN NATIVE WOMEN IN BUSINESS. WE DO THIS BY CO-CREATING WITH AND CONVENING OUR COMMUNITY TO BUILD COALITION WHILE HONORING OUR CULTURE, CREATIVITY AND CONNECTIONS.

  • Community Convening & Learning Native Women Lead provides in-person and virtual programming and events for Native Women Entrepreneurs through our Native Women's Business Summit, Business Retreats and Capital Summits. We also provide hybrid options for convening and virtual programming to make all of our offerings to the community accessible to all Native women wherever they may be located. We convene our community to provide workshops, listening sessions, training and self care activities that focus on providing support, restoration, resources and a network for Native Women business owners.

    Expenses $402,750

  • Facilitating Access to Capital Native Women Lead currently has two (2) gender lens focused relationship-based lending programs to support Indigenous women-led businesses in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Our Matriarch Funds provide access to equitable, patient capital while providing wrap-around technical assistance and support through coaching, mentorship, shared resources, community convenings and opportunities to earn 50% loan forgiveness. Our Matriarch Creative Fund currently serves 21 borrowers with loans ranging from $4,000-$9,000. Our Matriarch Restorative fund currently serves 7 borrowers with loans ranging from $15,000-$50,000.

    Expenses $163,488

  • STORY TELLING COMMUNICATIONS - native women lead uplifts our community through story telling by sharing the history, lived experiences and truths of our people. It is important to share the impact of the work we are doing with and in our communities. We do this through a gender lens focus by demonstrating the importance of the many roles that Native women hold as the caretakers, breadwinners, entrepreneurs and leaders of our families and communities. In our efforts to advocate and continue to fundraise for our communities and our work, we are telling our own stories and reclaiming our narrative by focusing on the benefits of not only supporting native women, but the rippling benefits to their families and the communities they are from.

    Expenses $70,873 · Revenue $3,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Vernelle Chase

    PRESIDENT -INTERIM EXEC. DIREC

    Total calculated
    $113,937
    From this org
    $113,937
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    33

  • Joan Timeche

    CHAIRWOMAN

    Total calculated
    $634
    From this org
    $634
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vina Little Owl

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Phoebe Suina

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $500
    From this org
    $500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,471,492
    Expenses
    $777,666
    Contributions
    $2,466,720
    Grants paid
    $6,153
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $210,795
    Expenses
    $129,667
    Contributions
    $204,425
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.