Insight Seminars
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462869107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054949809
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $609,639
- Expenses
- $659,444
- Assets
- $614,627
- Liabilities
- $136,354
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE HUBBARD (PRESIDENT/CEO/DIRECTOR)
- RACHAEL JAYNE (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIO)
Highest reported compensation
- RACHAEL JAYNE (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIO): $96,089 total reported compensation
- DAVID RAYNR (DIRECTOR): $17,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Insight seminars is here to assist us in transforming ourselves into loving so that the greater transformation of the planet to loving will take place.
What it reported doing in 2025
Insight seminars is here to assist us in transforming ourselves into loving so that the greater transformation of the planet to loving will take place. This is accomplished through the many seminars that are put on by insight seminars. Insight i: the awakening heart seminar. The first of the insight seminar series lays a foundation for a unique journey of personal transformation. It is designed to support participants in effectively living a fulfilling life in alignment with their own unique personal goals and values and manifesting greater levels of success in all areas of life. The insight i seminar guides participants on an engaging, inspiring and absorbing adventure of self- discovery. It begins with opportunities to assess the authenticity of personal goals and objectives. Then it assists in the examination of beliefs and behaviors to determine whether they propel forward or hold back from having genuine and heartfelt experiences. Using simple yet dynamic tools of awareness, the insight seminar series reconnects participants to their authentic self- what we call the heart. This reconnecting is the awakening to loving, especially to self- loving. From this place of knowing and wisdom, people naturally align to their higher sense of purpose, manifesting the freedom and enthusiasm that accompany that purpose. As the understanding and experience of "self" deepens, participants can proactively define their life, rather than trying to fit themselves into previously defined roles. Highly experiential, the insight i is a powerful first step in self-awakening and self-awareness that brings each participant into a more conscious alignment with their true purpose. This automatically promotes greater joy, fulfillment and the experience of true abundance. In 2025, we had 63 insight i seminars worldwide. Insight ii: the opening heart seminar. The insight ii process provides numerous contexts for examining deep-seated beliefs and behaviors, so students can determine which support them in their deeper purpose and which hold them back. From an expanded perspective, participants can make choices that serve them in relating, working and living more effectively. Insight ii broadens and deepens the self-exploration work begun in insight i. For many students, this seminar creates an opportunity for them to open to the magnificence of their authentic self. The insight ii seminar is an intensive, dynamic five-day small group experience. With a maximum of 40 participants, strong bonds of trust and acceptance are quickly created and mutual respect and support are nurtured. Similar in some aspects to insight i, the insight ii seminar places a greater emphasis on individual participation, games, interaction, and processes than on lecturettes. Profound breakthroughs in self-knowledge and a greater sense of expansion and empowerment are hallmarks of the insight ii experience. In 2025 we delivered 30 insight ii seminars worldwide.teen insight i: the awakening heart seminar. Teen insight i brings together teenagers from diverse backgrounds who discover that they are not alone; they all face similar challenges. What's more, they experience the power of the loving heart in resolving conflicts - both inner and outer- as well as in promoting conscious choices that support their having the life experiences they really want. Areas the teen insight i seminar addresses include: o examining self-identityo developing effective socialization skillso enhancing self-confidence, self-esteem and self-wortho increasing motivationo improving communications skillso enhancing relationships with peers, teachers and parentso building inner strengthso creating greater cooperationo strengthening leadership abilitieso imparting practical tools to use every day to create greater personal success in and out of schoolo integrating inner and outer resources for effectively dealing with peer pressure and making wise choiceso supporting acceptance of yourself just as you areo identi
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.9%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -8.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.9% of revenue deployed · 47.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $314K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.