Teleos Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952586935
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4806941611
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,046
- Expenses
- $71,816
- Assets
- $18,180
- Liabilities
- $1,165
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DIANE KENNEDY PIKE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
People named in this filing
- ELEANOR ARNAU (DIRECTOR)
- SCOTT MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAMES STAVOY (DIRECTOR)
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
The purpose of teleos institute is to provide orientation, training, experientialpractice, challenge, inspiration, education, companionship, and support for thosewho are consciously choosing the individualizing process; to facilitate the shiftin identification from personality to self; and to encourage integrated, balanced, and creative expression in those who are awakening.
What it reported doing in 2025
Leadership mastery, theatre of life, publications and other services.
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.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.1%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.1% of revenue deployed · 0.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $652 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.