Right Use of Power Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453915851
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Arvada, CO, USA
Phone
7209388715
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$187,688
Expenses
$165,737
Assets
$3,073
Liabilities
$75,629

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amanda Aguilera (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Amanda Aguilera (Executive Director)
  • Mary Cedar Barstow (Founder)

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 Right Use of Power? is a dynamic, inspiring, and relational approach to the ethical use of power to promote well-being, the common good, and right relationship. Through interactive tools and embodied, self-reflective processes, we inspire and support people to navigate power dynamics consciously and ethically with accountability, strength, and heart. We offer skills training, programs, resources, consulting, speaking, and coaching.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our introductory program, The Right Use of Power Basics training, was offered 13 times throughout the year in 3 different languages. A total of 180 participants attended our Basics Training offerings for 2025. Each Basics was co-facliitated by different combinations of 10 faculty members. The Basics training is 5 hours long and offers an introduction to the Right Use of Power language and framework. It includes embodied exercises, didactic presentations, and discussions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.5%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 28

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: 11.7%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 24.61; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 91.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.5% of revenue deployed · 27.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.