Cabot Kent Hermetic Temple
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800543419
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Salem, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9784543887
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,790
- Expenses
- $25,508
- Assets
- $110,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REVEREND LAURIE CABOT (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- REVEREND LAURIE CABOT (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
- REVEREND PENNY CABOT (CLERGY CKHT)
- KAREN THEMELIS (CLERK, DIRECTOR)
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
The cabot kent hermetic temple is established for the promulgation of the principles of witchcraft. As a religion, with components of educations & reseearch as part of its mission, the organization will carryout, in the name of religion, matters of ritual; support of its community; in all areas commonly associated with religion, including but not limited to: education & training of priests & priestesses, research, advice & counsel, & promulgation of its core beliefs. Ckht is organized with the intent of creating & sustaining a community of those spiritually like-minded. We provide them with opportunity to formulate their religious beliefs & exercise those rituals & observances & permitting the community to reinforce thise religious beliefs. Ckht shall focus on the following: purposes & practices, rituals of the calendar, rituals of life stages, training for people in the temple, education for people outside the temple, witchcraft as a science, advice & counsel, promulgation.
What it reported doing in 2025
$5582.00-storage (valuable artifacts & seasonal decorations) & $2000.00 for event rental hall where we transform the hall into sacred space through decorations & artifacts honoring our gods & goddesses during our eight seasonal festivities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.4%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.31; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 17%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 29.4% of revenue deployed · 51.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 29/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.