Institute for the Study of Somatic Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943156835
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155090700
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,760
- Expenses
- $23,126
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ABBY MILLER (President)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH STRAIN (Secretary)
- ABBY MILLER (President)
- FREDERICK BROUSSEAU (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
Professional training in somatic education
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program services are the provision of courses of professional training and education in movement; rehabilitation; performance enhancement for athletes and performing artists, post-graduate education for physical therapists, occupational therapists, sports and fitness professionals, and teachers of the feldenkrais method of somatic education. In 2024, we provided educational direction, curriculum design, and teaching services for 3 four-year training programs for somatic educators: in san francisco; shanghai, china; and chiemsee, germany. Approximately 85 students in those teacher training programs. We provided services as guest faculty at a four-year teacher training program in aurillac, france for approximately 50 students. We provided continuing (postgraduate) education and consulting for approximately 90 students in international and domestic teaching combined across the professions and fields named above.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -164%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.