EnlightenNext
Legal name: Enlightennext Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222951275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2014
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Lenox, MA, USA
- Phone
- 3039745084
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $507
- Expenses
- $9,931
- Assets
- $1,816,584
- Liabilities
- $328,987
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID GOLD (BOARD MEMBER & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MELINDA SCHILD (SECRETARY, CLERK & COO): $99,708 total reported compensation
- TIMOTHY GRACE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $18,770 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EnlightenNext is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to the evolution of human consciousness and culture, inspired and guided by the principles of Evolutionary Enlightenment, connecting individual transformation with responsibility for the collective future. EnlightenNext is a global movement and nonprofit organization dedicated to the evolution of human consciousness and culture. Founded by spiritual leader and cultural visionary Andrew Cohen in 1988, EnlightenNext is inspired and guided by the principles of what Cohen calls Evolutionary Enlightenment. Connecting individual transformation with a deep sense of responsibility for our collective future, this twenty-first-century spiritual philosophy is the lifeblood of EnlightenNext�s organizational culture and all of its events, programs, and publications. EnlightenNext offers: An original, contemporary spiritual path and...
What it reported doing in 2014
The board of trustees voted in june, 2013 to approve a plan to dissolve the organization, wherein all previously scheduled programs and retreats to august, 2013 would continue to be held.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,858.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 182.92; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1,193%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.