Organization for Professional Astrology Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881780988
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2144154409
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Astronomy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,981
- Expenses
- $184,797
- Assets
- $10,762
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kay Taylor (President)
People named in this filing
- Kay Taylor (President)
- Dorje Kirsten (Secretary)
- Maureen Houshmand (Treasurer)
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 organization focuses on making astrology accessible, credible, and sustainable. It celebrates astrology's diversity by creating excellent quality content available to the community, elevating standards of practice, and providing guidance for professional astrologers to sustain themselves financially. The organization cultivates heart-centered bonding and community connections.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the reporting period, the organization hosted an annual retreat consisting of 13 events with approximately 100 participants, featuring specialized learning workshops and professional development trainings. Additionally, the organization conducted a speaker series consisting of webinars, conferences, and similar educational events with diverse presenters covering topics in astrology. The organization also offered immersion workshops that engaged approximately 130 unique participants and supported the ongoing certification of astrologers. These educational offerings provided valuable knowledge and skills that complemented certification requirements administered by an affiliated 501(c)(6) professional association. The combined programming offered networking opportunities and professional development that strengthened practitioners' expertise in the field. During the reporting period, the organization also granted to two nonprofit organizations providing astrology education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
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: 0.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $177K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.