Zen Way Foundation
Overview
Mission
Zen Way Foundation’s T.H.E.M. (The HeArt of an Entrepreneurial Mindset) program supports K-12 youth by using creative expression, financial literacy, mentorship, and student travel to cultivate self-confidence, and it aligns with the Black Student Achievement Program’s goals for successful Black student achievement.
Zen Way Foundation is a non-profit organization describing its work through multiple initiatives, including T.H.E.M. (The HeArt of an Entrepreneurial Mindset) for K-12 youth—focused on creative expression, financial literacy, mentorship, and student travel—and related programming such as an artist/writer residency intended to support T.H.E.M students, eco-sustainability volunteer/gap work, and the HeArt Center retreat for women and youth in transition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844719692
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2022
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-PF 2022
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Rating
- 20
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2020 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.