Shadybrook Center for Personal Growth
Legal name: Shadybrook Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340821255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mentor, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4405148104
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,463
- Expenses
- $110,537
- Assets
- $706,494
- Liabilities
- $5,558
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH WIDENER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH WIDENER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $61,660 total reported compensation
- NANCY HERRICK (CHAIR): $1,655 total reported compensation
- LAURA IMBORNONI (VICE CHAIR): $591 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Shadybrook creates spaces where we can discover our inner wholeness and ignite the courage to live it forward. Shadybrook strives to be an inclusive community of individuals. We operate with honesty and integrity. Each of us brings our own perspectives and authentic experiences to the table. We can each participate at our own level of comfort. Community provides the safety, belonging, and relatedness to support, inspire, challenge, and love one another. Shadybrook holds space for conscious conversations that represent diverse perspectives and open up the world to each other. We facilitate active listening and compassionate dialogue. An image of a bright blue swirling gallaxy scattered with stars in space.
What it reported doing in 2025
Shadybrook programs include: yoga, reiki, spiritual exploration and discussion groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -63.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.39; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 47.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.