Virginia · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,711 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($241,176). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $578k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Association for Research & Enlightenment Inc does
Mission
The mission of association for research and enlightenment (a.r.e.) is to create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the edgar cayce material.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational programs: our headquarters, field conferences, and online programming provide structured programs based on edgar cayce's topics and teachings. While attendance has not yet returned to pre-covid levels, we are moving forward with the support of our dedicated membership. In 2024 we conducted 81 programs of variousformats and lengths, attracting a total of 2,629 attendees from across the country and around the globe.on-site bookstore: promotes and sells a.r.e. Press publications, related outside publications, and peripheral items. This sales venue is for the convenience of our members, donors, visitors and supporters, including conferees, massage therapy students, and spiritual / health seekers to assist them in improving their lives physically, mentally, and spiritually.prison outreach: provides prisoners and prison libraries with free books based on the edgar cayce material and a prison "pen pal" program, assisting inmates with concepts and questions in the edgar cayce material.prayer & meditation services: serves as both a resource center and a well-networked international prayer service. Our monthly international prayer service includes an inspirational prayer letter…
$3,570,357 spent$1,217,016 earned by the program69% of program spendingHealth and spa services: health and spa services provides and administers the health care modalities recommended in the edgar cayce readings while assisting individuals in utilizing their own innate healing abilities. Our goal is to provide application of the edgar cayce health readings in a responsible, caring and professional manner such that these services align with both the spirit and philosophy of the readings. The following services were provided: bodywork (including massage and acupressure), hydrotherapy (including colonics and steams),chiropractic, acupressure, hypnotherapy, counseling and energywork. The health center and spa provided care to a total of 5,991 in services for the year of 2024.
$1,149,131 spent$841,930 earned by the program22% of program spendingMemberships: a.r.e.'s total membership was 10,687 at 12/31/24. Some of our accomplishments in 2024, included: we provided a free annual membership (scholarships) to 124 individuals who were not able to pay for their membership in 2024.website:in 2024, edgarcayce.org had 597,109 visitors with 2,016,139 pageviews.top pages by views included the edgar cayce's association for research and enlightenment homepage, events & programs, seven prophecies yet to come, edgar cayce's life and readings, membership, exclusive member section, akashic records, a.r.e. Health center and spa, resources, therapies: castor oil packs, and the edgar cayce readings.top countries u.s., canada, england, australia, and india.website visitors came primarily from the u.s.here are some stats for our website: top countries producing traffic: (sessions/users)1. United states 753,702/470,1572. Canada 42,914/27,5283. United kingdom 21,651/14,7654. Australia 16,461/10,5245. India 6,861/4,7516. China 6,353/5,9187. Germany 5,776/4,2078. Netherlands 4,981/3,6069. France 4,663/2,99410. Ireland 3,983/2,777top sources of traffic included (in order of ranking): organicdirectsocialreferralpaid user devices were split into…
$254,282 spent$612,992 earned by the program5% of program spendingPublication and dissemination: promotes and sells a.r.e. Press publications. This sales venue is for the convenience of our members, donors, and supporters, including conferees, students, and spiritual / health seekers to assist them in improving their lives physically, mentally, and spiritually. This venue promotes and reaches outside of the local virginia beach demographics to national and international seekers.in-house publications: a.r.e. Press publishes and distributes books and media to wholesale and retail bookstores that are based on and related to the edgar cayce topics and teachings. Certain publications are also offered in spanish. All of a.r.e. Press publications are also available as ebooks and numerous titles are available as audiobooks.
$172,998 spent$402,595 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,146,768.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $20M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Nicole Charles
Executive director/CEO (retired)
Board chair
Marianne Splenda
Trustee, board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $57k → $65k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $201k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Association for Research and Enlightenment Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 78% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 34 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Atlantic University · exempt
- Edgar Cayce Foundation · exempt
- Association for Research and Enlightenment Inc Regions · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,711 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($241,176). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $577,711 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $241,176 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing