Uzit

Legal name: Urban Zen Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261872027
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2022
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2128408555
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Buddhism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$7,803
Assets
$31,065
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DONNA KARAN (CHAIR, BOARD MEMBER)
  • RICHARD BASKIN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • GALLY MAYER (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Creating, connecting and collaborating to raise awareness and inspire change in the areas of well-being, preserving cultures and empowering children. The foundation designs forums, partners with existing organizations, and brings together experts to define solutions and implement action.

What it reported doing in 2022

Urban zen integrative therapist program (uzit) is an educational program that includes training in yoga and related therapies, nutrition and contemplative end-of-life care education. The program provides broad knowledge and expertise to students, preparing them to use these integrative therapies in a variety of healthcare settings.

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
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -58.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth 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.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.