Foundation For Ontological Leadership Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851495299
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Glen Ellen, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7077994327
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,413
- Expenses
- $88,199
- Assets
- $46,024
- Liabilities
- $23,467
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeri Echeverria (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeri Echeverria (President)
- Joseph Joe DiMaggio MD (Secretary)
- William Bill Parrish (Treasurer)
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 corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, including but not limited to conducting activities that advance and support the methodology of ontological/ phenomenological education in accredited institutions of higher education throughout the world, including the training and development of faculty and scholars via workshops, courses, webinars and conferences.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education (FOLE) continues to support offering the course, Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological / Phenomenological Model, in universities around the world. In our Creating Course Leaders Program (CCL), we work with university faculty to develop and train themselves to lead this course in their universities. In 2025, we worked with 40 university faculty in 30 universities and colleges within 12 countries on five continents. FOLE received nearly 3700 hours of volunteer support from CCL Instructors, CCL faculty, and others who have completed our courses. In addition, we expanded our fundraising from private donors. Last year, FOLE supported the development and offering of our Course at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Davis; Presbyterian University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya; the Medical School of Lausanne, Switzerland; the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland; Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana; and San Jose State University in California. FOLE also offered an online course in spring of 2025. We continued offering the various required and optional courses in our CCL Program, such as four three-hour live broadcasts, monthly conference calls on leading the course, and personal coaching. We also developed and launched a new Course in the CCL Program called Mastering Course Delivery and revised our participant tracking structure.
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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.3%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
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: 22.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.3% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.