Strozzi Institute for Somatics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934577076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5104441232
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,253,158
- Expenses
- $3,611,880
- Assets
- $368,801
- Liabilities
- $643,453
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DI): $147,176 total reported compensation
- RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLER - SENIOR (TEACHER & AD): $145,210 total reported compensation
- DENISE MAES (ENROLLMENT D): $133,644 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The institute was founded to advance and promote the field of somatics, and to develop transformative leaders and organizations that can meet the challenges of our times, leaving our communities and world more vital than we found it. Somatics helps individuals reconnect with the wisdom of their body, heal their conditioned responses, and take actions aligned with their values, even when under pressure.
What it reported doing in 2024
In-person strozzi somatics training classes sis offers in-person courses that follow a carefully designed curriculum that begins with the foundational "embodied transformation" course and continues with advanced courses. A.embodied transformation the 4-day, in-person embodied transformation course provides the foundational introduction to strozzi somatics. This course serves community and social change leaders who recognize the need for more connection and collaboration as they work towards social and environmental change; and others wanting to become more centered as they support their communities. We project that over 300 individuals will complete this course in 2024 in California, Washington, dc, New York, and europe. B.somatic bodywork sis offers advanced coursework in somatic bodywork, which incorporates breath, movement, touch, energy and the physical body. This course builds off of the foundation of embodied transformation and supports therapeutic healing to enable participants to lead their lives and organizations in more impactful ways. This course is a 5-day course offered three times per year in petaluma, California. We project that 50 to 80 people will complete this course in 2024. C.somatics, trauma, and resilience somatics, trauma & resilience is an advanced-level course designed and led by staci k. Haines, author of the politics of trauma: somatics, healing and social justice. Over four days, participants are guided through addressing existing traumas and practicing transformative tools for healing and resilience. Participants are led to deeply explore the short and long-term impacts of trauma on the mind, body, emotions, and relationships, regenerate a sense of safety from the inside out. This course also teaches participants how to assess their own competence with healing trauma - to con? Dently know when to engage further support or refer a client or team member to a trauma specialist. This course is a 4-day course offered once per year in oakland, California. We project that 30 to 40 individuals will complete this course in 2024. D.embodied leadership pathway the sis embodied leadership pathway (elp) is an 8-month, leadership transformation program that blends in-person and online learning, including three, 4-day in-person workshops, four virtual group coaching sessions, and four virtual learning sessions. Elp is offered once per year in petaluma, California. We anticipate that 20 participants will attend this program in 2024. E.strozzi institute somatic coach ("sisc") certification program sis conducts a somatic coach certi? Cation program ("sisc"), which is accredited by the international coaching federation (icf). Sisc trains coaches to support individuals to ful? Ll their commitments more effectively, to work more skillfully with others, and to embody new, generative ways of being with greater purpose and deeper impact. Sisc certi? Cation consists four 4-day in-person sessions and includes an introduction to somatic bodywork, one-on-one mentor coaching, mentoring groups, webinars, and online learning. Training takes place over 8 months, followed by six months of virtual coaching and mentorship. Sisc certification includes more than 150 contact hours. In 2024, we will be hosting the sisc program in California and in rome, italy, and we will also be launching a Washington, dc-based cohort in june 2024. We project that 72 individuals will begin the program in 2024. F.train-the-trainer/social & environmental justice leaders initiative sis will be launching a train-the-trainer (ttt) program to support social and environmental justice leaders who wish to lead groups through portions of our curriculum in ways that are tailored to the contexts and with the communities that they serve. This program facilitates systemic change by teaching others to teach somatic awareness, somatic practices, resilience, effective collaboration, and healing towards more empathetic relationships. Through individual and group somatic
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 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.74; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 182.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $176K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.