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COOK INLET NATIVE HEAD START

EIN 27-0502649 ANCHORAGE, AK

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Revenue 2024
$7,375,256
Expenses 2024
$7,748,604

Program services were 89.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
6901 E TUDOR RD STE 7

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

BUILDING STRONG FOUNDATIONS WITH ALASKA NATIVE FAMILIES THROUGH ALASKA NATIVE CULTURES AND EDUCATION.

  • OPERATION OF THE TRIBAL HEAD START PROGRAM, OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES, AND PARENTAL/FAMILY SUPPORT. THE ORGANIZATION STRIVES TO ACHIEVE THEIR COMMUNITY-ORIENTED VISION OF "STRONG NATIVE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES REACHING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL." IN 2024, COOK INLET NATIVE HEAD START RECEIVED IN-KIND SUPPORT FROM SEVERAL VENDORS FOR SERVICES AND DONATED GOODS IN THE AMOUNT OF $362,629.

    Expenses $6,945,621

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Ember Thomas

    Interim Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $165,585
    From this org
    $142,941
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,644
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,756
    Bonus
    $9,185
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,726
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,918
    Filer's total
    $165,585
  • Gypsy Gardener

    Education Manager

    Total calculated
    $153,964
    From this org
    $134,272
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,692
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $125,087
    Bonus
    $9,185
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,120
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,572
    Filer's total
    $153,964
  • Olesya Zalata

    Payroll & Fiscal Admin

    Total calculated
    $153,069
    From this org
    $132,516
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,553
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $123,331
    Bonus
    $9,185
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,325
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,228
    Filer's total
    $153,069
  • Ethan Petticrew

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $128,278
    From this org
    $109,619
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,659
    Hours/week
    40
  • Janice Wilson

    HR Manager

    Total calculated
    $109,031
    From this org
    $101,166
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,865
    Hours/week
    40
  • Nicole Sheldon

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • Jon Ross

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • Greg Razo

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • Greg Encelewski

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23 + 0.23 related
  • Susan Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • Angela Michaud

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • James Sears

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23 + 0.23 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,375,256
    Expenses
    $7,748,604
    Contributions
    $7,375,256
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,373,566
    Expenses
    $7,218,333
    Contributions
    $7,373,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,626,510
    Expenses
    $6,673,700
    Contributions
    $6,626,510
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,716,000
    Expenses
    $6,593,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,985,374
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,327,366
    Expenses
    $4,225,984
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,784,812
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,725,418
    Expenses
    $3,821,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,672,969
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,107,458
    Expenses
    $3,265,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,690,946
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,598,319
    Expenses
    $3,035,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $865,985
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,786,583
    Expenses
    $2,826,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $280,000
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,859,112
    Expenses
    $2,939,441
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,147
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,760,847
    Expenses
    $2,803,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $451,322
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,814,415
    Expenses
    $2,888,548
    Assets (EOY)
    $470,343
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,764,487
    Assets (EOY)
    $540,552

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • COOK INLET REGION INC

    C CORPORATION · SEE PART VII · AK · share of income $0 · share of assets $0

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.