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WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE

EIN 81-4180619 ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Revenue 2024
$611,448
Expenses 2024
$590,772

Program services were 73.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I83
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 37065

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

THE WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE IS AN INDIGENOUS-LED LEGAL NONPROFIT THAT PROVIDES SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ORIGINAL NATIONS, THE EARTH, AND CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENTS

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT AND ADVOCATE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE

  • WPLC BEGAN AS THE ON-THE-GROUND LEGAL TEAM FOR THE WATER PROTECTORS AT STANDING ROCK, PROVIDING LEGAL SUPPORT AND DIRECT REPRESENTATION IN OVER 800 CASES IN NORTH DAKOTA. TODAY, WPLC CONTINUES TO PROVIDE LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ON FRONTLINE LEGAL STRUGGLES VIA DIRECT REPRESENTATION IN IMPACT LITIGATION, SELECT CRIMINAL DEFENSE CASES, ONGOING LEGAL ACCOMPANIMENT, ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION AND KNOW-YOUR-RIGHTS TRAININGS. WPLC ALSO ENGAGES IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS WORK IN UNITED NATIONS MECHANISMS ON BEHALF OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.

    Expenses $431,334 · Revenue $21,413

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.

  • Carolina Martin Ramos

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mia Hammersley Montoya

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monaeka Flores

    CO-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Uruchima

    CO-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandra Creamer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ozawa Bineshi Albert

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Natali Segovia

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $149,332
    From this org
    $143,332
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,000
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $611,448
    Expenses
    $590,772
    Contributions
    $590,035
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $361,244
    Expenses
    $627,087
    Contributions
    $361,244
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $140,889
    Expenses
    $363,553
    Contributions
    $134,568
    Grants paid
    $281,970
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $869,155
    Expenses
    $605,406
    Contributions
    $869,155
    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
    $601,201
    Expenses
    $587,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $240,997

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $550,465
    Expenses
    $662,047
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,697

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,625
    Expenses
    $464,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,654

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $316,157
    Expenses
    $407,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $445,995

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $707,335
    Expenses
    $930,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,230

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,780,563
    Expenses
    $1,019,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $770,212

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.