Sleepawake Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991482462
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$282,798
Expenses
$282,851
Assets
$51,091
Liabilities
$6,877

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Eleanor Czepiel (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Eleanor Czepiel (Executive Director): $76,800 total reported compensation
  • Jeff Lieberman (Board Member, Treasurer, Lead Facilitator): $8,000 total reported compensation
  • Catherine Tweedie (Board Member, Lead Facilitator): $8,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sleepawake Camp's mission is to normalize deep well-being in the modern world. Study after study, including the longest-term study on human happiness conducted over 80 years at Harvard, clearly and repeatedly show that it is the quality of our relationships that has the highest impact on our well-being and sense of purpose in our lives. Everything we do, at its root, is for well-being. And yet, there is a woeful lack of education in helping to enable that deep seated well-being. From this insight and desire for maximal impact, Sleepawake was born - a bootcamp, but one for the mind, heart, body, and spirit. A place to learn the difficult skills that few of us are taught. Everything from self-awareness and metacognition, to how to regulate yourself during emotional intensity, navigating through conflict, owning your desires in your life, expressing your full creativity, not acting out of obligation, to how to cook for yourself and so much more.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sleepawake Immersive is an 8 day residential retreat for cohorts of 30 participants. We focus on emotional, mental, and relational wellbeing, building the skills that many of us were never taught in schools but that are crucial for living a life of wellbeing: setting boundaries, healthy relationships to difficult emotions, conflict resolution, and more. 18% of attendees reported it as the most transformative experience of their life. These totals also include expenses and revenue from running a few shorter events (<5%), which are primarily used as marketing funnels for these 8 day retreats.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 88% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 43
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -26.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $219K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.