The Global Institute of Probiotics FKA The National Institute of Probiotics
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743041639
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Westlake Village, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8053714737
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5
- Expenses
- $1,862
- Assets
- $3,165
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Natasha Trenev (President)
People named in this filing
- Natasha Trenev (President)
- Yordan Trenev (CFO, Secretary)
- Jaggi Rao MD (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
1. To Promote and fund basic and cutting edge clinical and medical research in futherance of the science of probiotics, conducted primarily at colleges, universities, hospitals, medical centers and major laboratories throughout the United States.2. To improve public health generally through education about probiotics and its multiple health benefits.3. To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and clinical research studies and reports in futherance of the science of probiotics, and to maintain an extensive library of research papers, reports, books, articles, periodicals and other educational materials on all aspects of probiotics, to which both scientists and the general public shall have access.4. To encourage and support the development of high standards of training and practice for therapists, consultants and other practitioners in the field of probiotics, and to develop and administer a national certification program for the recognition and maintenance of competence in probioti
What it reported doing in 2025
Program Service Accomplishments: To Promote and Fund Basic and Cutting Edge clinical and medical research in furtherance of the science of probiotics, conducted primarily at colleges, universities, hospitals, medical centers and major laboratories throughout the United States.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37,140%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 61; 61st 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: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.