Bluelight Heals Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862319043
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cheyenne, WY, USA
Phone
6265364083
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-1,055,843
Expenses
$25,725,285
Assets
$28,763,985
Liabilities
$13,256

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LEWIS STEVENS (PRESIDENT)
  • NATALIE TRIGO REYES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DELIA PARRA (COO & TREASURER): $170,228 total reported compensation
  • JESSICA SIMMONS (EDUCATION & GRANT FIELD OFFICER): $151,107 total reported compensation
  • NATALIE TRIGO REYES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $148,424 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower individuals to help people understand themselves better to remove negative thinking patterns using spirituality techniques to be happier and healthier.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bluelight heals is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving mental health using various modalities including yoga and meditation. We give back to indigenous tribes around the world through our grant program, bringing their indigenous wisdom teachings into the modern world through our education program. With nature as our compass and in seeing how all is interconnected, we recognize the importance of changing the world together. At bluelight we are crafting the community of future generations who will lead the way to regenerate and preserve our sacred earth and honor the vision of a peaceful, loving, and thriving planet. Our community initiatives offer those an opportunity to meet others, connect, and explore their talents and passion while supporting healing the planet and the conscious evolution of ones-self and individual gifts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Pass
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,536.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 85.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -72.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $170K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.