Oasis Institute A Center for Attitudinal Healing

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
621595731
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Knoxville, TN, USA
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,135
Expenses
$46,293
Assets
$85,625
Liabilities
$1,333

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Norm Durfee (Executive Director)
  • Victoria McDonald (President)
  • Diana DePugh Bradley (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Norm Durfee (Executive Director)
  • Victoria McDonald (President)
  • Diana DePugh Bradley (Vice President)

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

OASIS Institute is a nonsectarian nonprofit spiritual organization originally established for the purpose of providing Attitudinal Healing services in the Knoxville TN area. Our mission is to create a safe physical and emotional environment for joining with others through support groups study groups classes and workshops which share the purpose of facilitation the well being of people of all backgrounds.

What it reported doing in 2025

A Course in Miracles: 2 weekly groups. Each group has both local and virtual attendance utilizing Zoom. The groups focus on studying and discussing the modern spiritual classic teaching A Course in Miracles which offers a curriculum intended to provide the students with a path to inner peach and happiness. Weekly attendance varies from approximately 10 to 25 persons.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 25.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.