Urantia University
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271537426
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 8055096525
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Higher Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,082
- Expenses
- $119,863
- Assets
- $126,754
- Liabilities
- $156
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM HOBBS (PRESIDENT)
- CLAIRE THURSTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ARIANA HORN (SECRETARY)
- BEVERLY BOYER (BOARD MEMBER)
- TIM HOBBS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and operate an online school and resource center to promote research, scholarship, and education about the philosophical and spiritual teachings of the urantia book.
What it reported doing in 2024
Instructor-led and self-directed study courses: urantia university institute (uui) provides an online educational environment in which beginning to advanced students may explore, study, and apply the philosophy and spiritual teachings of the urantia book to their lives. Uui offers dozens of four-to-eight-week long, instructor-led, online courses to more than 300 students each year, plus over 75 self-directed online studies that offer hundreds of students the opportunity to study at their own pace. Those seeking spiritual community can find meaningful connections and lively discussions with other truth seekers in the daily online uui cafes and the sunday online group worship services, which are attended by several hundred people each month. Uui's educational programs are free to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.