Clear Light Sangha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843992701
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Crestone, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7202316111
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,360
- Expenses
- $161,678
- Assets
- $71,686
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Kathleen Bren (Financial Officer)
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
Clear Light Sangha provides non-dual, spiritual enrichment classes and seminars via silent residential retreats, Zoom online workshops, and in-person retreats throughout the year. Approximately 300-350 people benefited from these services. All donations were made by individuals who are interested in spirituality and enlightenment.
What it reported doing in 2025
3 Silent retreats, 2-4 on-line Zoom sessions, and 3-4 in-person day-long workshops were scheduled for the purposes of Spiritual enrichemnt and education. Approximately 300-350 people benefited from these services. All donations were made by individual people interested in these services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.