California · Nonprofit
COROS INSTITUTE
COROS INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,521 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($81,430). 1 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 FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Coros Institute does
Mission
The Coros Institutes primary exempt purpose is to establish dialogues between individuals or organizations committed to social change, to provide educational services, to foster social, scientific or artistic research based on spiritual values and the publication and dissemination of relevant educational materials and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Artisanal Agriculture Within the scope of the Artisanal Agriculture program was developed a symposium on 21st Century Alchemy and the New Renaissance of Science, for which 12 international speakers were invited and the offerings included 15 sessions and 3 Q & A panels. This was attended by 250 participants who offered exceptional feedback expressing enthusiasm for building bridges between ancient alchemical practices and modern natural science. Another popular series of lectures called the New Adam focused on awakening with compassion in the soul of the other and building community through understanding the relationship between minerals and plants. The potential of essential oils for harmonizing the bodys sensory processes and the use of gem powders for soil health were two of the aspects covered. This event gathered 100 participants with the promise of many more in the future who will access the online recordings.
$18,059 spent84% of program spendingBiodynamic-Research The research produces many remarkable results for the future of biodynamic agriculture and some of the results are recorded in published articles and recently a very successful approach of reaching the youth audience is through free postings of videos on Youtube. The most popular videos were on essential oil distillation method and the basic gardening series, some samples are Creating a Distilling Apparatus with a Pressure Cooker; Understanding Alchemical Processes: Fix and Flux in Nature; and Wood and Weeds-Compost Medicine, etc. There have been a remarkable 205,000 views of our videos in 2024 with 16,000 hours of viewing time. We have 5500 new subscribers this year.
$1,180 spent6% of program spendingDevelopment Outreach of Schooling Content We owe much of our success with reaching our target audience through the effective email campaigns we have had throughout the year. We have 2555 subscribers with an additional 610 subscribers this past year. Our open rate is 54%(industry standard is 40%) with a 6.6% click rate (versus 1.4% for industry standard) Weve had 143,000 visits to the website programs and articles through Google and email. In addition to the free Youtube videos we have both paid and free videos online. Some of the videos come from our archives, then they are edited and released for free online view. Two very popular free videos posted in 2024 are Nature and the Human Spirit; and The I Being and the Doubles. We have posted many free articles online in 2024, among the most accessed ones were, Technology and Moral Development; A Cautionary Tale; and a series of eight articles on The Alchemy of Holy Week. These were so successful that they have been further edited and enhanced with commentary and will appear as a print publication in 2025 available through Amazon.
$2,135 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $108k to $74k (−31%).
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.
99% of COROS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $81k → $45.
3 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of COROS INSTITUTE’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
COROS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COROS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 COROS INSTITUTE'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. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COROS INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COROS INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COROS INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COROS INSTITUTE?
- COROS INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,521 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($81,430). 1 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 COROS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $91,521 in grants to COROS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COROS INSTITUTE?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COROS INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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