Eckhart Tolle Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475641645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 7208852210
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $530,827
- Expenses
- $602,241
- Assets
- $1,124,911
- Liabilities
- $6,818
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN JACOBSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ULRICH LEONARD ECKHART TOLLE (DIRECTOR)
- ERIN JACOBSON (PRESIDENT)
- TAMI SIMON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2016, the Eckhart Tolle Foundation focuses primarily on awakening human consciousness, as well as alleviating—and ultimately ending—the suffering created by the dysfunction of the egoic human mind. We accomplish this through making Eckhart Tolle’s teachings available to communities in need, and by funding and collaborating with like-minded organizations, especially those who work with youth and students, incarcerated people, hospice patients and the elderly, animals, and other vulnerable beings.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation provides lectures, videos, training materials and books to various organizations that reach vulnerable communities with whom the foundation would not otherwise have access. This includes monetary grants to organizations committed to assisting incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network and comprehensive reentry services. Other beneficiary organizations provide support to our focus populations including students and educators, hospice and healthcare communities, senior centers, veterans, prisons and animals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $435K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.