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WISDOM OF THE ELDERS INCORPORATED

EIN 93-1164114 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2025
$543,452
Expenses 2025
$493,934

Program services were 55.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
2000
Street
630 NE KILLINGSWORTH ST

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

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

Activities or mission (Part I)

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

  • Native American Cultural Sustainability - multimedia education and race reconciliation. Expenses: use program column total from Part IX

    Expenses $138,133

  • Workforce Development - holistic approach to environmental habitat restoration utilizing Native American traditional ecological knowledge & conventional science to strengthen Native workers career engagement cultural identity and wellness

    Expenses $82,880 · Revenue $29,962

  • Climate Documentary Production - oral history cultural arts and climate science series featuring voices of exemplary Native elders storytellers song carriers and scientists offering vital perspective on environmental and climate issues

    Expenses $55,253

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.

  • 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 Director

    Total calculated
    $80,612
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $80,612
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $543,452
    Expenses
    $493,934
    Contributions
    $513,490
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $809,365
    Expenses
    $945,504
    Contributions
    $430,914
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $411,061
    Expenses
    $698,609
    Contributions
    $411,061
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,046,243
    Expenses
    $1,011,625
    Contributions
    $653,318
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $771,866
    Expenses
    $709,797
    Contributions
    $445,524
    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
    $690,793
    Expenses
    $593,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,549

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,406
    Expenses
    $489,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,090

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $539,926
    Expenses
    $655,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,171

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $565,056
    Expenses
    $656,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $189,395

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.

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

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.