Cornerstone Collaboration for Societal Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923399514
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Winkelman, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 2085207895
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,601
- Expenses
- $183,694
- Assets
- $12,546
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN GROSSENBACHER (President)
People named in this filing
- JOHN GROSSENBACHER (President)
- TRACY GAUDET GROSSENBACHER (Treasurer)
- LAURI PHILLIPS (VP/SECRETARY)
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 mission is to catalyze and accelerate a change in society by humanizing individual behaviors and societal systems. This change will enable people to thrive and society to flourish, resulting in: improved physical, mental, and spiritual well-being throughout our society. highly functional societal systems that put a priority on human values in how they operate. increased benefit to humanity and life on earth from all our world's resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cornerstones 2025 business activities included the continued development and implementation of a program for a Doctorate in Whole Health Leadership degree for Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCUHS). This work included providing Executive Director oversight for development and implementation of this doctorate program. Cornerstone also provided Whole Health training to faculty and staff at SCUHS. All work was accomplished by contractors who were selected and paid by Cornerstone. Transformation of health care in the U.S. is our initial effort at broader societal system transformation and the SCUHS work is our critical starting point.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -110.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $168K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.