Oakrose Academy of Light
Legal name: Oakrose Academy of Light Inc % Ann Battaglia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900995348
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Placentia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5054908855
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,806
- Expenses
- $52,917
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV ALICEANN SAUNDERS PHD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REV ALICEANN SAUNDERS PHD (PRESIDENT): $14,225 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote an expanded awareness and understanding of metaphysics and the law of the one as it has been given unto the earth by heaven. To promote planetary consciousness and spiritual development.to perform service work as a community, including spiritual obligations, service to god in light, education through higher teachings, spiritual development, public presentations, master classes, workshops, website information and written materials.obligations, service to god in light, education through higher teahings, spiritual development, public presentations, master classes, workshops, website information and written materials.
What it reported doing in 2018
Upliftment of planetary conciousness and local education and spiritual development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -154.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2013 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.