Unifying Meditation Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208037137
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Jamestown, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034591114
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,177
- Expenses
- $133,268
- Assets
- $984,231
- Liabilities
- $1,945
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT TARANTINO (FOUNDER/EDU.): $28,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide information and instruction to interested members of the public about different forms of meditation through organized programs and courses.
What it reported doing in 2025
Unifying meditation institute 2025 activities: classes are taught every sunday, followed by a guided meditation. Some classes also incorporate spiritual music and songs to enhance the meditative experience. Those who are local can join us at the center, while those who are not local or choose not too travel can join us by zoom. We have people as close as 1 town over that join us, as well as people from me, ga, fl, nc, and some international locations. For those interested in learning meditation, introduction lectures are available, either inividually or in groups, followed by one on one lessons to learn the actual practice of meditation. For students who want to continue learning, we offer level teachings, and also what we call "roundings" as people move through cycles of meditation and movement. This can be one night in residence at the center, or up to two weeks. This gives people the opportunity to dive deeper into their meditation and movement practices. We also gather for some of the holidays and offer the opportunity for people to either stay in residence, or just come up to join us for the day. Activities include meditation, music, seminars, food, and dancing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.39; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.