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COVENANT PATHWAYS

EIN 47-3515588 VANDERWAGEN, NM

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Revenue 2024
$405,603
Expenses 2024
$329,721

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1200
Street
212 COUSINS ROAD

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

Covenant Pathways farm (Spirit Farm) was developed to be a living example of how we can recover and reclaim traditional farming and spiritual practices, along with modern practices, to establish resiliency in our way of life, reducing the dependency on the very food system that is harming us. Spirit Farm continues to develop the demonstration farm that uses all organic practices, including microbiological composting, to heal the hard high desert southwestern soil. Our mission is to generate opportunities that impact individuals and communities with Native traditions that attach the human spirit to the Earth. In addition, we provide additional opportunities for growers to increase the quantity and quality of their produce, as well as use less water, which is a critical step when growing food in our climate.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Covenant Pathways farm (Spirit Farm) was developed to be a living example of how we can recover and reclaim traditional farming and spiritual practices, along with modern practices, to establish resiliency in our way of life, reducing the dependency on the very food system that is harming us. We apply ancestral Indigenous wisdom integrating creative solutions energized by nature that provides experience and training to grow nutrient rich foods in the southwest high desert. Spirit Farm uses all organic practices, including microbiological composting, to heal the hard high desert southwestern soil. Our mission is to generate opportunities that impact individuals and communities with Native traditions that attach the human spirit to the Earth. In addition, we provide additional opportunities for growers to increase the quantity and quality of their produce, as well as use less water, which is a critical step when growing food in our climate.

  • Spirit Farm: Develop and maintain a demonstration and experiential farm that uses only natural practices including microbiological composting, to heal the high desert southwestern soil and be a living example of how we can recover and reclaim traditional farming and spiritual practices, along with modern practices, to restore natures cycles to heal the environment and establish resiliency in our way of life, reducing the dependency on the very food system that is harming us. The farm provides visual models and discussion opportunities with growers of methods that can increase the quantity and quality of their produce, as well as use less water, which is a critical step when growing food in our climate. Technical assistants are trained annually.

    Expenses $161,074 · Revenue $195,384

  • Community Education/Training: Provided bi-monthly workshops in the community and at our farm to create awareness and train others on soil microbes and how important they are to healing the soil, growing nutrient rich foods, restoring the natural water cycles and removing excess carbon from the atmosphere, Indigenous regenerative agriculture, microbiological composting trainings, food preservation, growing in a greenhouse, animal husbandry, etc. With extensive experience in both traditional Navajo growing practices as well as regenerative farming techniques, with the expertise required to assist growers, Covenant Pathways equips local indigenous growers start and expand their farms, sharing much of the 50+ tons of compost made annually on site. The organization also provides materials and hands on assistance to growers in several nearby communities. Visitors, native and non-native come to the farm to tour and experience the self-sufficiency of the farm.

    Expenses $51,247 · Revenue $109,465

  • Bio Char Implementation - a program under Spirit Farm to make Biochar to be added to the compost. Biochar has potential to increase the biomass of plants, healing the soil through a natural process. This year the organization is preparing to receive the biochar machine that has the capability to not only make the biochar, but use the heat to warm water that is then piped underneath the soil in the greenhouse, warming the soil in order to extend the growing season.

    Expenses $27,827 · Revenue $69,236

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.

  • James Skeet

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $41,137
    From this org
    $41,137
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50
  • Joyce Skeet

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $39,016
    From this org
    $39,016
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60
  • Natana Begay

    Business Manager

    Total calculated
    $28,126
    From this org
    $28,126
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Byron McMillan

    board president

    Total calculated
    $200
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $200
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vanessa Vandever

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Percy Anderson

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Chanselyn foster

    board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $405,603
    Expenses
    $329,721
    Contributions
    $402,481
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $271,153
    Expenses
    $258,438
    Contributions
    $269,918
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $263,030
    Expenses
    $271,621
    Contributions
    $255,916
    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
    $236,263
    Expenses
    $220,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $296,388
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,465
    Expenses
    $166,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,773
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,465
    Expenses
    $166,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,773

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 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Joyce skeet
Mailing address
PO BOX 455Vanderwagen NM 87326
Website
www.covenantpathways.org

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.