Whole Elephant Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203385115
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Flushing, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9174851269
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,492
- Expenses
- $11,101
- Assets
- $24,294
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lotus King Weiss (President)
- Brian Scott Weiss (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lotus King Weiss (President)
- Brian Scott Weiss (Vice President)
- Deok Seop Shim (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Whole Elephant Institute's primarily exempt purpose is to deliver Truth to the people all over the world through home based community based holistic education programs. With the least expenses we have delivered the greatest knowledge to all who trust us.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Whole Elephant Institute has made major progresses this year. 1. Successful daily operation at the Flushing Community Office: training team members, build education team, daily public education through online platforms, maintain websites; home visits; homeless programs; community education at community parks. 2. Education and Business Consultation were successfully delivered. 3. New programs have been established, such as the Los Altos Elite Chinese School and the Pure Lotus Charter School. 4. A Life Science Research Grant Application was submitted "Molecular Validation of Moral Disciplines in Cancer Prevention, Treatment and Survivorship". 5. A Charter School Application was submitted to Charter School Office of New York State for Pure Lotus Charter School. 6. New Business collaboration Projects have been initiated. 5. Sacred Virtue Way Institute Project made significent progress.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and the available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.