Numina Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 393757016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Crestone, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7199377782
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Art Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,820
- Expenses
- $10,880
- Assets
- $25,968
- Liabilities
- $12,028
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Elisabeth Desmarais (Board Member)
- Marika Popovits-Wadman (Board Member)
- Whitney Randolph (Board Member)
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 Numina Foundation creates opportunities for emergent creativity in the broad arena of the Arts and Architecture. It is particularly interested in exploration that is integral and nondual and which seeks to illuminate the nature and facets of new scientific cosmology, collective evolutionary phase changes and higher states of consciousness. The organization supports and seeks to cultivate the interface of skillful mastery in different artistic media with states of mystical receptivity such that imagination itself is transcended in the quest to experience unitive consciousness and reveal essence.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, Numina Foundation was formed and received 501(c)(3) exempt status. In furtherance of our exempt purposes, we obtained an initial site upon which we intend to establish a visionary off-grid exhibition, teaching, and intimate artistic forum space. At our planned facility, Numina aims to offer a regenerative experience for the human spirit through a contemplative immersion in the beauty and stillness of the natural setting, and the inspired artworks with their poetic invocations. In a light-filled architecture, beneath the majestic presence of the surrounding Sangre di Cristo mountains, all will combine to deepen awareness and assist the contemplative process. Selected works from the collection of internationally recognized painter Marika Popovits will be a flagship feature of the planned exhibition space.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.9%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
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: 56.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.9% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.