Washington · Nonprofit
Council for Tribal Employment Rights
Council for Tribal Employment Rights (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $318k
What Council for Tribal Employment Rights does
Mission
To act as a resource liason organization for Federal agencies, businesses, indian tribes and other organizations interested in positively effecting the employments right efforts. To advocate and promote the establishment and enforcement of tribal employment rights and to provide training and TA to indian tribes, Alaska Natives and other Indian Organizations on employment rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TERO National ConventionTERO stands for Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance or Office. TERO Ordinances require that all employers who are engaged in operating a business on reservations give preference to qualified Indians in all aspects of employment, contracting and other business activities. TERO Offices were established and empowered to monitor and enforce the requirements of the tribal employment rights ordinance.The primary purpose of the TERO program is to enforce tribally enacted Indian Preference law to insure that Indian/Alaska Native people gain their rightful share to employment, training, contracting, subcontracting, and business opportunities on and near reservations and native villages.A Tribes authority to enact and enforce an Indian/Native employment preference law is grounded in its inherent sovereign status. This legal doctrine is the most basic principle of Indian law and is supported by a host of Supreme Court decisions. Inherent sovereign powers derive from the principle that certain powers do not necessarily come from delegated powers granted by express acts of Congress, but are inherent powers of a limited sovereign that have never been taken away. Tribes…
$107,362 spent$96,074 earned by the program71% of program spendingTERO Legal UpdateSpeakers who share with attendees the very latest in important developments effecting Indian preference and issues of sovereignty.
$44,435 spent$153,483 earned by the program29% of program spendingTERO Membership
$109 spent$55,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,906.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $159k to $266k (+66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
20% of Council for Tribal Employment Rights’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Melvin Wheeler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Council for Tribal Employment Rights’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Council for Tribal Employment Rights draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Council for Tribal Employment Rights runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Council for Tribal Employment Rights
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council for Tribal Employment Rights: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Council for Tribal Employment Rights?
- Council for Tribal Employment Rights (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being TC ENERGY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council for Tribal Employment Rights have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to Council for Tribal Employment Rights.
- Who is the largest funder of Council for Tribal Employment Rights?
- TC ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council for Tribal Employment Rights find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing