Yogashield Yoga for First Responders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812161762
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,084
- Expenses
- $183,292
- Assets
- $9,395
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Olivia Mead (CEO)
- Eric Brenneman (President)
People named in this filing
- Olivia Mead (CEO)
- Eric Brenneman (President)
- John Wojtowicz (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
YogaShield Yoga For First Responders delivers job-specific and culturally informed yoga breathwork and nervous system regulation training to first responders and public safety professionals. The organization equips personnel with practical tools to enhance performance process stress and support long-term mental and physical wellbeing.
What it reported doing in 2025
YogaShield Yoga For First Responders provides digital training through YFFR University and YFFR OnDemand making culturally informed job-specific yoga and nervous system regulation training accessible to first responders anytime and anywhere. In 2025 YFFR continued using its digital platform to deliver structured training in stress processing breath control mindset and performance support for public safety professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.7%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 28.4%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.7% of revenue deployed · 28.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.