Newark Yoga Movement Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Newark yoga movement (nym) has serviced over 40 schools in newark, nj over the last sixteen years in grades pre-k through 12th serving over 43,000 children. Dosage (frequency of yoga and time per class) varies based on school needs and age of children. All levels of children receive yoga - from tier 1 and tier 2 children (having many behavioral needs) to children having special needs, athletes and more. Outcomes: over and over students reduce their anxiety and stress and learn how to handle situations differently. Note that in an urban environment, it is often two steps forward, one step back. For example, many children live on a stage of chaos, single household, guardian, parent in jail, drugs, shootings. It's a lot so if one is angry, the behavior often seen at home is violent. In school, when they learn yoga, they see they can shift anger using breath and that takes time. Our program continues with a top newark high school where we teach 1200 students including teaching yoga for athletes and self-care for the staff. Students cannot believe how yoga helped them reduce anxiety and find calm and a bit of pause, even the students at schools where behavior is challenging. Further, walking through elementary schools where there was previously poor behavior, has shifted to quiet hallways and good student behavior in the classroom. The head of schools for one of our programs noted that students mentioned to her that they are using these techniques before testing and to calm down. Link community charter school lead maria paradiso said "students in particular need these opportunities to stop and focus on their own well-being. I would encourage all school leaders to figure out how to bring these tools into your school."staff yoga/staff development sessions with schools: educators continue to be stressed out and whenever we can, we offer staff self-care. As we completed our 15th year, we served over 6,000 educators in self-care programs. The nboe virtual twice a month self-care for educators, ended june 2024 as their grant ran out, hence a decline in important staff development.facebook live classes: community yoga remains popular and free to all participants both in person and online that started during covid. Nym does not charge for any of these classes, although we softly ask for donations. This also includes pre-natal yoga given in-person in the community of which programming fee charged to the facility.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
• Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97

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: 29.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.74; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings