BahaiTeachings.org
Legal name: One Planet One People Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472907496
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-PF 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153775445
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $654,468
- Expenses
- $530,109
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
To help advance a humanitarian process by supporting learning and independent investigation of the Baha’i teachings, including principles such as the elimination of prejudice, the essential harmony of all religious truth, and the equality of women and men. The Baha’i Faith has no clergy and invites everyone to take part in a life-long process of independent investigation and learning about how lofty spiritual principles—such as the elimination of prejudice, the essential harmony of all religious truth, and the equality of women and men—can translate into a new social reality. Baha’is believe that the central teaching of the Baha’i Faith, the oneness of humanity, will ultimately usher in the long-promised age of global justice, peace and collective human maturation. The primary purpose of BahaiTeachings.org is to help advance this humanitarian process. Organized in a worldwide network...
BahaiTeachings.org presents the Baha’i Faith’s non-clergy approach and invites people to participate in a lifelong process of independent investigation and learning. It frames its “primary purpose” as advancing a humanitarian process by supporting the translation of spiritual principles—such as the elimination of prejudice, the essential harmony of religious truth, and the equality of women and men—into a “new social reality.” The site also describes a worldwide network of democratically-elected councils (Spiritual Assemblies) in thousands of localities in the U.S. and in more than 180 countries, and it invites readers to engage through grassroots community-building activities and to connect via site contact forms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 100% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.