Ancient Ancestral Origins
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992293681
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Orem, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8018303142
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,221
- Expenses
- $19,176
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- ERIC TOLMAN (DIRECTOR)
- ERIC TOLMAN (TRUSTEE)
- BRYAN FARRIS (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our purpose is to create regenerative communites where individuals reconnect with nature, ancient wisdom, and holistic well-being. Through sustainable living, experiential learning, and personalized healing, we empower people to restore balance, sovereignty, and harmony in their lives. Our sactuaries provide transformative spaces for healing, growth, and stewardship, fostering a global movement toward conscious, sustainable living fo rthe benefit of humanity and the earth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission aligned charitable contributions-advances the preservation of cultural heritage, environmental stewardship & spiritual education. Reflects AAOs commitment to ethical reciprocity, public benefit, and the responsible support of ancestral traditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.2%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 1%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 139.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 1.2% of revenue deployed · 1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $200 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.