Sophia Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680358870
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3032425388
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,620
- Expenses
- $99,801
- Assets
- $161,676
- Liabilities
- $43,678
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Choy (Treasurer)
- Cecille Greenleaf (Secretary)
- Karen Rivers (Trustee)
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
Transformation Through Sacred Art, Sacred Science, And Sacred PracticeToward a world imbued with love and freedom We are forging a new path to Christ, the essence of Divine Love, and Sophia, the wellspring of Divine Wisdom, to serveindividual growth on four levels.Self ~ engaging in a continual process of inner development to actualize ourtranscendent nature and redeem our shadow. Humanity ~ including interpersonal relationships, community relations, andrelationships with other cultures.Nature ~ reclaiming our responsibility to Mother Earth and awakening to thestarry heavens. Spirit ~ opening an experience of the trans-subjective spiritual world, tocultivate co-creative, intuitive capacities in service of God.The Sophia Foundations mission carries forward the spiritual inspiration of RudolfSteiner, Peter Deunov (Beinsa Douno), Valentin Tomberg, Daniel Andreev, AnneCatherine Emmerich, and other great mystics. We serve to connect Sophiacommunities around the world working in the spirit of
What it reported doing in 2025
Newsletter and Study Materials - 100 Study materials delivered and over 1,726 newsletter subscribers, 100 of which and paid subscriptions.
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 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.