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CHINLE PLANTING HOPE

EIN 82-2692327 CHINLE, AZ

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Revenue 2025
$421,767
Expenses 2025
$282,493

Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 4119

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 · 2025

Mission

TO BRING HOPE AND EMPOWERMENT TO FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE NAVAJO NATION BY BUILDING COMMUNITY, LIVING WITH HOPE AND WALKING IN BEAUTY.

  • READ IN BEAUTY BOOKMOBILE: READING EMPOWERS ADVENTURES AND DREAMS THE R.E.A.D. IN BEAUTY BOOKMOBILE SERVES CHINLE AND MANY SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES ON THE NAVAJO NATION. THE BOOKMOBILE TRAVELED TO OVER 75 SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS IN 2024. OVER 2000 LIBRARY CARDS ARE DISTRIBUTED AND OVER 30,000 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHECKED OUT. IT PROVIDES FOUR QUARTERLY LITERACY AND STEM EVENTS AND RUNS AN ANNUAL SUMMER READING CHALLENGE. CPH ALSO RUNS READ AT HOME AND IS THE COMMUNITY PARTNER FOR THE DOLLYWOOD IMAGINATION LIBRARY. THE BOOKMOBILE PARTNERS WITH THE CHINLE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND IS ALWAYS ACCEPTING BOOK DONATIONS.

    Expenses $81,904

  • CHINLE PLANTING HOPE PRACTICES CREATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ON THE NAVAJO NATION AND MEETS COMMUNITY NEEDS WITH EMPOWERMENT, DIGNITY AND HOPE. WE HAVE PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE FOOD, SUPPLIES AND GOODS TO THE DIN PEOPLE ON THE NAVAJO NATION. WE ALSO BUILD PARTNERSHIPS THAT ENCOURAGE BUILDING COMMUNITY, LIVING WITH HOPE AND WALKING IN BEAUTY.

    Expenses $42,132

  • ELDERLY SUPPORT PROGRAM: THE ELDERLY SUPPORT PROGRAM GREW OUT OF A COVID RESPONSE WHERE OVER 1200 FOOD BOXES WERE DELIVERED TO DIN ELDERLY DURING THE PANDEMIC. CPH NOW CONTINUES TO DELIVER FOOD BOXES TO SENIORS SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR, DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO 3 LOCAL SENIOR CENTERS EACH MONTH AND WORKS WITH NAVAJO SOLAR LIGHTS TO INSTALL APPROXIMATELY 40 TO 50 SOLAR LIGHT KITS EACH YEAR FOR ELDERLY THAT HAVE NO ELECTRICITY. IT IS AN HONOR TO SUPPORT OUR WISDOM AND LANGUAGE KEEPERS

    Expenses $38,097

  • H.O.P.E. THRIFT STORE: HELPING OTHERS, THE PLANET AND THE ENVIRONMENT THE HOPE THRIFT STORE IS THE ONLY THRIFT STORE FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES ON THE NAVAJO NATION. IT OFFERS FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND CLOTHING AT EXTREMELY DISCOUNTED PRICES. THE THRIFT STORE IS A COMMUNITY SERVICE BY PROVIDING GOODS LOCALLY AND SAVES FAMILIES TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY. IT ALSO PROVIDES EMPLOYMENT AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.

    Expenses $37,847

  • IMAGINATION STATION: THE IMAGINATION STATION IS THE NEWEST PROJECT OF CPH THAT WILL BE A 3000 SQUARE FOOT LEARNING SPACE FULL OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY AND STEM ACTIVITIES. IT WILL OFFER FREE PLAY, FIELD TRIPS FOR CUSD, AND LOTS OF STRUCTURED OUT-OF-SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES AND CLASSES. CPH IS ALSO PLANNING TO ADD A FREESTANDING LIBRARY NEXT TO THE IMAGINATION STATION, A CHILDRENS DEMONSTRATION GARDEN AND OUTSIDE LEARNING AREAS.

    Expenses $26,828

  • COMMUNITY GARDEN: THE COMMUNITY GARDEN HAS COMPLETED 2 GROWING SEASONS, HOSTED A FAMILY GARDEN PARTY AND A CPH FARMERS MARKET AND ART WALK. IT WILL BE TRANSITIONING TO A CHILDRENS GARDEN AT THE IMAGINATION STATION NEXT YEAR.

    Expenses $893

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Bessie Tso

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $15,600
    From this org
    $15,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Amber Drinen

    PROGRAM COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Juanita Preston

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathy Mitchell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mildred Kee

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monica Faley

    BOARD CHAIR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $421,767
    Expenses
    $282,493
    Contributions
    $405,511
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $376,333
    Expenses
    $266,263
    Contributions
    $353,953
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $442,581
    Expenses
    $161,907
    Contributions
    $436,111
    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
    $129,583
    Expenses
    $89,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,180

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $258,944
    Expenses
    $79,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,042

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Amber Drinen
Mailing address
PO BOX 4119CHINLE AZ 865030000

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 as related by

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.