- Revenue 2024
- $924,644
- Expenses 2024
- $872,910
Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B90
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 363 CARPENTER LN
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
OUR MISSION IS TO RECLAIM TIME AND SPACE FOR HOLISTIC HUPA LANGUAGE RESURGENCE. WE AIM TO CULTIVATE INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING THROUGH RECONNECTING OUR PEOPLE TO ONE ANOTHER, OUR LANGUAGE, OUR CULTURE AND OUR HOMELANDS. OUR PROGRAMMING FOCUSES ON THE CONTINUED TRANSMISSION OF OUR LANGUAGE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE OVERALL WELLNESS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO RECLAIM TIME AND SPACE FOR HOLISTIC HUPA LANGUAGE RESURGENCE. WE AIM TO CULTIVATE INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING THROUGH RECONNECTING OUR PEOPLE TO ONE ANOTHER, OUR LANGUAGE, OUR CULTURE AND OUR HOMELANDS. OUR PROGRAMMING FOCUSES ON THE CONTINUED TRANSMISSION OF OUR LANGUAGE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE OVERALL WELLNESS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
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THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE IMMERSION NEST IS A MODEL THAT HAS PROVEN GREAT SUCCESS FOR COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE WORLD AT CREATING NEW SPEAKERS OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES AND PROVEN TO IMPACT WELLNESS OUTCOMES FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. TARGETING THIS AGE GROUP WILL ENABLE US TO CREATE A GENERATION OF BABIES WHO WILL GROW UP HEARING AND SPEAKING HUPA LANGUAGE WITH EACH OTHER, THEIR TEACHERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. WE HAVE SEEN SUCH AMAZING PROGRESS WITH OUR STUDENTS DURING OUR FIRST YEAR INCLUDING SOME OF THE BABIES SPEAKING THEIR VERY FIRST WORDS (OF ANY LANGUAGE) IN HUPA. WE SERVED 9 STUDENTS AGED 2 YEARS TO 4 YEARS OLD IN A FULL TIME PROGRAM MONDAY-THURSDAY FOR 5 HOURS A DAY, FROM OCTOBER 2024 TO MAY 2025. OUR CURRICULUM IS CENTERED AROUND HUPA STORIES, SONGS AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD IN DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE WAYS CONDUCTED PRIMARILY IN NA:TINIXWE MIXINE:WHE, THE HUPA LANGUAGE.
Expenses $553,697 · Revenue $717,982
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AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR WORK TO CREATE HUPA LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FOR USE IN OUR PROGRAMS AND FOR SHARING WITH OUR LARGER COMMUNITY. AS THERE HAVE BEEN NO FULL-TIME HUPA LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOLS, WE HAVE HAD TO ALMOST START FROM SCRATCH IN CREATING BOOKS, SONGS AND OTHER CURRICULUM FOR OUR PROGRAM STUDENTS AND OTHER LEARNERS IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP HUPA LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DURING THE YEAR, CONTINUING TO LEVEL IT UP FOR THE STUDENTS AS THEY GROW.
Expenses $136,123 · Revenue $136,123
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IN LATE SUMMER OF 2024 AND EARLY SUMMER 2025, WE COMPLETED OUR 8TH AND 9TH SUMMER OF PUTTING ON OUR ANNUAL XONTEHL-TAW IMMERSION SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN (K-4). THESE CAMPS PROVIDE LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL PROGRAMMING FOR OLDER STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE LITTLE TO NO SUCH PROGRAMMING IN LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WHO THRIVE WHEN THEY ARE IMMERSED IN OUR HUPA WAYS OF BEING. OUR SUMMER SCHOOL ALSO SERVES AS A TRAINING GROUND FOR FUTURE HUPA LANGUAGE TEACHERS AND PROMOTES THE LOVE AND USE OF OUR ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE AND TRADITIONS. WE HAVE ALSO INTRODUCED A MENTORSHIP PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 5TH-8TH GRADES AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO CAN HELP AT CAMP AND MENTOR THE YOUNGER STUDENTS IN THEIR HUPA LANGUAGE LEARNING.
Expenses $64,491 · Revenue $64,491
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.
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Craig MerrickCRAIG MERRICK
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alberta SanchezALBERTA SANCHEZ
VICE-PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Katherine BeckKATHERINE BECK
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Libby HaileyLIBBY HAILEY
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jenna HaileyJENNA HAILEY
CO-DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $90,150
- From this org
- $90,150
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Sara MerrickSARA MERRICK
CO-DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $90,150
- From this org
- $90,150
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Erika TracyERIKA TRACY
CO-DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $64,950
- From this org
- $64,950
- From related orgs
- $0
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $924,644
- Expenses
- $872,910
- Contributions
- $918,595
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $311,473
- Expenses
- $111,121
- Contributions
- $310,661
- 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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023
- Principal officer
-
Sara Merrick
- Mailing address
- PO Box 1165Hoopa CA 95546
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
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FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
$150,000
2023 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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2023 LANGUAGE SUPPORT
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2023 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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2024 DREAMSTARTER, LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION
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2023 PROGRAM ASSISTANCE
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2024 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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.