World at Ease Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454010067
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2069406833
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,783
- Expenses
- $104,695
- Assets
- $18,838
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Chenoa Taylor (Director)
- Kristen Grossman (Director)
- Sherry Kellogg (Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
World at Ease (WAE) has been organized to operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including, but not limited to, providing the healing power of yoga and meditation to those affected by extreme and/or chronic stress and trauma. WAE trains and deploys certified mind-body professionals to settings where they can enhance the health and well-being of individuals, families, organizations and communities
What it reported doing in 2025
Warriors at Ease (WAE) provides the most comprehensive yoga, mindfulness, and resilience training on the market to aid in the prevention and rehabilitation of physical and invisible injury seen in the military community. Our online Level 1 training and in-person Level 2 and 1 & 2 combination trainings provide teachers and service providers with the unique set of knowledge and skills necessary to safely and effectively impact this population. The WAE Teacher Network disseminates these teachings, tools, services to the communities they serve in VAs, Vet Centers, clinical settings, with partner nonprofits, military installations, community studios and more. Our programs continue to ensure both immediate and long term health, resilience, and post-traumatic growth for individuals and communities so they can take back their lives and rediscover a life of purpose and service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.