Wishtoyo Foundation

“Director jan ward olmstead is the sister-in-law of executive director mati waiya.”

“The bylaws were amended to update audit committee procedures, to incorporate new applicable laws, to best facilitate compliance with current laws and best practices, to address provisions in wishtoyo's current bylaws that would benefit from further clarity, and to better tailor bylaws to the organization.”

“The form 990 was distributed to all board members for review prior to filing.”

“Each year, directors and other covered persons submit a disclosure statement identifying all potential and actual conflicts of interest. Such persons are also required to report all potential transactions that may give rise to a conflict of interest. Disclosure statements are reviewed by the organization's filing officer, counsel, executive director, and board of directors to determine compliance and any appropriate actions set forth in the policy for addressing such transactions.”

“The wishtoyo foundation board of directors approved the compensation amounts as fair and reasonable to wishtoyo foundation, in wishtoyo foundation's interests, and for wishtoyo foundation's benefit based on a board of directors approved compensation study/assessment that wishtoyo commissioned an independent consultant to perform. The compensation amounts provided by wishtoyo in 2019 were below the market median amounts for the applicable employment position provided in this compensation study/assessment that the board of directors determined to be fair and reasonable.”

“Listed documents were not made available to the public.”

“As of the date of filing, the organization has a written document retention and destruction policy that was approved in 2020.”

“Broadstreet payroll services bv is the payroll company that leased jason weiner back to wishtoyo to serve as wishtoyo's senior counsel and international program director. Out of this amount paid to the payroll company, the compensation to jason weiner was $99,512.23, with the remainder being for foreign employer taxes and payroll company service fees.”

“In 2019 wishtoyo began planning, design, and implementation of our new first nations cultural & ecological conservancy ("conservancy") on approximately 100 acres wishtoyo acquired along the utom river (the chumash name for the santa clara river) in santa paula,ca. At full operation, the conservancy, with its cultural center, programmatic features, and restoration components will be a model of sustainability and a center that preserves and promotes the cultural practices, lifeways, heritage, and well being of chumash and indigenous peoples, while also serving as a place where people from all over the world will come together to learn about and work towards protecting the natural resources, heritage, and human rights that indigenous peoples and all peoples depend upon.”

“Contracted services: program service expenses 401,938. Management and general expenses 96,257. Fundraising expenses 801. Total expenses 498,996.”

“Deferred grant revenue: wishtoyo receives monies for past and future attorney/staff fees and cost from cases, both to bring and litigate the case and to enforce/monitor the settlement. Depending on the outcome of the case, wishtoyo may repay the monies received. In 2019 this amount was $233,000.”