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INDIGENOUS IOWA INC

EIN 81-4176128 IOWA CITY, IA

Revenue 2023
$203,951
Expenses 2023
$435,635

Program services were 41.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
412 KIMBALL RD

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 · 2023

Mission

WE ADDRESS THE TRAUMA THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE EARTH FACE AND WORK TO PREVENT FURTHER COLONIAL CAPITALIST VIOLENCE BY FIGHTING FOR AND BUILDING POWER IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES THROUGH REMATRIATION, HEALING JUSTICE AND BRINGING IN A REGENERATIVE ECONOMY.

  • PROTECT THE SACRED INITIATIVE GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY'S PROTECT THE SACRED INITIATIVE IS FOCUSED ON STOPPING VIOLENCE TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BY EDUCATING AND ORGANIZING AROUND THE MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES CRISIS AND SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS FAMILIES WITH MISSING OR MURDERED RELATIVES THROUGHOUT IOWA, NEBRASKA, AND THE GREAT PLAINS. LAND DEFENSE INITIATIVE THE MISSION OF OUR FRONTLINE LAND DEFENSE PROGRAM IS TO SAFEGUARD THE LAND, AIR, AND WATER IN ORDER TO PROTECT SACRED INDIGENOUS SPACES AND PRACTICES THAT RELY ON INTACT ENVIRONMENTS AND A HEALTHY CLIMATE. OUR GOAL IS TO USHER IN AN INDIGENOUS-LED REGENERATIVE ECONOMY THAT USES TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TO BUILD STRONG FOOD SYSTEMS, CLEAN LANDSCAPES, AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. REPRESENTATION INITIATIVE THE MISSION OF OUR REPRESENTATION INITIATIVE IS TO END ERASURE, WHITEWASHING, AND STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BY INCREASING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION, CHANGING LEGISLATION, EVOLVING NARROW-MINDED HOLIDAYS, AND ABOLISHING RACIST MASCOTS/DEPICTIONS, AS WELL AS MONUMENTS TO WHITE SUPREMACY. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY'S CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE IS CENTERED ON GETTING FOLKS OUT TO VOTE ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEIR FREEDOM, HEALTH AND SAFETY. THROUGH THIS WORK, WE ARE BUILDING POWER IN OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES BY EMPOWERING THEM TO SHOW UP, SPEAK OUT, AND CREATE CHANGE.

    Expenses $180,470 · Grants $51,977

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KAREN MACKEY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CAROLYN RAFFENSPERGER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REGINA TSOSIE

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERRENCE MEDINA

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEELY DRISCOLL

    MEMBER AT LA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINE NOBISS

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $60,471
    From this org
    $60,471
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $203,951
    Expenses
    $435,635
    Contributions
    $203,661
    Grants paid
    $51,977
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $503,635
    Expenses
    $267,044
    Contributions
    $503,482
    Grants paid
    $14,951

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
    $149,491
    Expenses
    $202,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,118

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $302,575
    Expenses
    $96,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,947

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 2024

On this postcard the filer reported that the organization has terminated or gone out of business.

Tax period
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
Principal officer
CHRISTINE NOBISS
Mailing address
412 KIMBALL RDIOWA CITY IA 52245
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

  • RED SKY NATION MISSING & MURDERED

    $43,503

    2023

  • MMIR LEGACY FUND

    $5,820

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 on its 2023 return

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.