Soul Stories

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320701635
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7203232720
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Association

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$24,615
Expenses
$26,706
Assets
$15,147

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRI ERGER (President)

People named in this filing

  • DANIEL MAZUR (Secretary)
  • VICTOR CHEN (Treasurer)
  • BRI ERGER (President)

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

Soul Stories host conversations that facilitate personal healing, human connection and social change.Soul Stories conducts two activities, Educational Services and Community Based Services, as described below. Both activities are conducted by employees and volunteers of Soul Stories as well as independent contractors. The activities are conducted throughout Colorado.

What it reported doing in 2025

Soul Stories offers a Mental Wellness Storytelling Curriculum & Workshops, training, and speaking engagements for schools, nonprofits and youth serving organizations. Soul Stories helps middle and high school students increase their mental health and well-being through trauma-informed and evidence-based programs. Workshops and curriculum facilitate play-based activities, personal storytelling frameworks, dialogue structures, and psychoeducation around positive coping strategies. Training and speaking engagements give youth professionals the tools and curriculum to implement Soul Stories interventions in their classrooms and increase the mental health of their students.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.