2026-05-20T10:48:20-07:00 2024-12-31 823726482 Rising Sun Accounting PO Box 25726 Seattle WA 98165 990 2024-01-01 990753144 Niweskok NIWE 2074164564 PO Box 554 Milford ME 04461 Alivia Moore Board Co-President 2074164564 2026-05-19 1 1 Samuel Dahlin P01888405 2069395442 2026-05-19 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Alivia Moore PO Box 554 Milford ME 04461 1105444 0 X niweskok.org X 2024 ME Niweskok, a collaboration of food and medicine providers, rematriates Wabanaki life ways by engaging with our kinship responsibilities and reclaiming traditional foods and healing. We prioritize restoring the Penobscot Bay region as a Wabanaki food hub. 7 7 0 15 0 0 0 1105439 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 1105444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12513 12513 0 2720 0 15233 0 1090211 0 1090211 0 0 0 1090211 Niweskok, a collaboration of food and medicine providers, rematriates Wabanaki life ways by engaging with our kinship responsibilities and reclaiming traditional foods and healing. We prioritize restoring the Penobscot Bay region as a Wabanaki food hub. 0 0 1912 0 0 Wabanaki Rematriation School (WRS) engages Wabanaki families in rematriating our foodways and feeding our communities. At the root of each community harvest, workshop, and set of curriculum materials we develop is the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge through Wabanaki languages, history, stories, ecology, and climate adaptation. WRS served 530 Wabanaki community members and provided 45 program service days in 2024. 0 0 0 Alihpewakanal, our agricultural program is central to Niweskok's work, and is rooted in rematriation. It helps Indigenous communities reconnect with and care for their ancestral lands. The site sits on more than 200 acres along the Goose River. Here on the farm, traditional knowledge and regenerative practices come together naturally. As Niweskok is getting re-aquainted to the land in the ancestral territory of the Penobscot Bay region, we are working with the land to heal it and restore it to a more traditional way of caring for the earth. Reaching toward decolonizing the diet and food sovereignty, Alihpewakanal- "Things to Eat", our agricultural program, focuses on growing native plant relatives and traditional food crops while building soils. It's a space where cultural resilience is nurtured. We engage in the gift economy and share all foods grown, gathered, and processed without cost to Wabanaki families. We were able to provide more than 4,000 pounds of locally grown vegetables, 492 pounds of traditional wild rice, 1,565 pounds of traditional cornmeal, and 2,951 pounds of locally raised organic poultry and locally caught shellfish. In addition, we gifted 444 quarts of berries, fiddleheads, and value-added products such as jams and maple syrup to Wabanaki families throughout the state. 0 0 0 1912 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 X Alivia Moore 2074164564 PO Box 554 Milford ME 04461 X Jus Crea Giammarino Co-President 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Alivia Moore Co-President 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Nicole Sue Francis Secretary 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Kessi Watters Kimball Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Heather Augustine Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Thompson Tintor Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Andrea Francis Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1105439 0 1105439 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1105444 0 0 5 130 130 12513 12513 678 678 1612 1612 Program Expenses 300 300 0 0 15233 1912 808 12513 0 654759 435452 0 435452 0 1090211 0 0 0 0 X 0 1090211 0 0 0 1090211 0 1090211 1090211 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 1105439 1105439 0 0 0 0 1105439 1105439 495238 610201 5 5 1105444 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 435452 435452 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 435452 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Niweskok provides a full draft of Form 990 to all board members prior to filing. Board members have an opportunity to provide input and ask questions about the 990 prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Niweskok has a written Conflict of Interest Policy, which board members review annually. If there is a concern, the board reviews and votes whether it is a conflict of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Niweskok makes its Form 990, Form 1023, governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. In addition, copies of Form 990 are available on public websites such as propublica.org Niweskok is a newly incorporated organization that began with a fiscal sponsor during the early and initial phase of setting up policies, procedures, and compliance. We remain under a fiscal sponsorship through 2025 until Niweskok is comfortable with its capacity to manage and comply with all required regulations. Niweskok opened its first bank account in July 2024 in advance of a capital campaign for purchasing a property for operations. As the volunteers are working through managing the organization and learning our responsibilities, we are responding and developing corresponding internal systems. Niweskok has hired a contract accountant to file the late 2024 990 ASAP, to prepare the 990s on time going forward, and to track the 990 deadlines. In addition, the Management of Niweskok will have the 990 deadlines on their radars to ensure late filings do not happen in the future. Normal business care and prudence were followed, therefore the organization is requesting full abatement of any late filing penalties & fees.