Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851313799
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
San Rafael, CA, USA
Phone
6512708607
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,939
Expenses
$153,064
Assets
$29,597
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNETTE BADENHORST (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DENNIS MCKENNA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • REBECCA LAZAROU (DIRECTOR)
  • RANJI VARGHESE (DIRECTOR)
  • ROBB DUNCAN (DIRECTOR)

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 academy's mission is to be a catalyst for the transformation of global consciousness through educational experiences that interweave our collective intelligence, science and ancestral wisdom.

What it reported doing in 2025

Symposiums and live events: organizes large-scale gatherings-both in-person and virtual-bringing together leading researchers, indigenous leaders, and subject matter experts for knowledge exchange and public engagement. Events range from global symposiums, such as the ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs (espd) conference, to international forums like the coca forum in cusco, peru. In 2025, symposiums and live events featured more than 60 speakers and reached over 1000 attendees worldwide, with recorded content made freely available online.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -53.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.