Coros Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680472064
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Fair Oaks, CA, USA
Phone
9167176007
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$27,878
Expenses
$45,717
Assets
$56,371
Liabilities
$779

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NICOLE EBARB (President)

People named in this filing

  • NICOLE EBARB (President)
  • MATIAS BAKER (Director)
  • LUISA BURGESS (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 Coros Institutes primary exempt purpose is to establish dialogues between individuals or organizations committed to social change, to provide educational services, to foster social, scientific or artistic research based on spiritual values and the publication and dissemination of relevant educational materials and research.

What it reported doing in 2025

Development Outreach of Schooling Content We owe much of our success with reaching our target audience through the effective email campaigns we have had throughout the year. We have 2555 subscribers with an additional 610 subscribers this past year. Our open rate is 54%(industry standard is 40%) with a 6.6% click rate (versus 1.4% for industry standard) Weve had 143,000 visits to the website programs and articles through Google and email. In addition to the free Youtube videos we have both paid and free videos online. Some of the videos come from our archives, then they are edited and released for free online view. Two very popular free videos posted in 2024 are Nature and the Human Spirit; and The I Being and the Doubles. We have posted many free articles online in 2024, among the most accessed ones were, Technology and Moral Development; A Cautionary Tale; and a series of eight articles on The Alchemy of Holy Week. These were so successful that they have been further edited and enhanced with commentary and will appear as a print publication in 2025 available through Amazon.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 46.8%; rating input score 47

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -64%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -22.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 46.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.