Sages and Seekers Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271228196
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Van Nuys, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5084448821
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,258
- Expenses
- $256,687
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRISH BRANDT (President)
- PAUL HIRSCHBERGER (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- FRISH BRANDT (President)
- PAUL HIRSCHBERGER (Vice President)
- KATIE ALTMAN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sages & seekers strives to combat social isolation and dissolve age-related segregation within our communities, while meeting the universal and compelling need of both adults and elders to make sense of their lives. We bring the generations together through programs that encourage participants to share their unique lives through authentic one-on-one conversation and storytelling.
What it reported doing in 2024
Over the past 12 months sages and seekers enrolled students and older adults from the surrounding communities of these facilities: 2 college bridge classes - 60, 2 fairfax high school after school program - 46, 3 ymca pop-ups - 36, 2 pasadena senior center - 60, 2 glassel park senior center - 60, 1 ambassador program - 16, 1 ambassador pop-up cityview - 14, 1 larchmont charter school - 14. Social isolation is a growing epidemic that impacts the well-being of both marginalized age groups we target teens and elders and is increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental, and emotional consequences. Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, higher levels of stress hormones and more. With our one-on-one intergenerational program, we are addressing social isolation by building personal relationships through authentic, meaningful conversation. In addition to these intergenerational relationships that develop, each program we run builds community for our program participants. We were able to impact 258 individuals in the los angeles area this past year, as well as other programs in other states across the country.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 47.1%; rating input score 47
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: -671.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 5.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 47.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- 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: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.