California · Nonprofit
Human Energy
Human Energy (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,765,000 to it, the largest being Kacyra Family Foundation ($4,765,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $919k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $366k
What Human Energy does
Mission
Human Energy is a catalytic hub for evolving collective consciousness. We ignite shared human purpose and optimism by equipping people to recognize and shape this transformative phase in human evolution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Developed a new Global Salon Series strategy and hosted two Salon events, with featured panels, interactive discussion, livestream, and recording: "Human Energy for Work and Life: Cultivating Agency, Connection and Purpose in the Age of AI" (Fordham University, New York City, June 12, 2025) and "Alignment for a Major Evolutionary Transition: The Future of Humanity and AI" (Shack 15, San Francisco, November 11, 2025)
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Dissemination of the "Third Story of the Universe" based on Teilhard de Chardin's scientific work and the work of other scientists with compatible theories. Dissemination includes videos, podcasts, popular papers, books, interviews, presentations, lectures, website media, and webinar courses.Developed a new Global Salon Series strategy and hosted two Salon events, with featured panels, interactive discussion, livestream, and recording: "Human Energy for Work and Life: Cultivating Agency, Connection and Purpose in the Age of AI" (Fordham University, New York City, June 12, 2025) and "Alignment for a Major Evolutionary Transition: The Future of Humanity and AI" (Shack 15, San Francisco, November 11, 2025)
$384,702 spent55% of program spendingCreation of educational curriculum around the techno-social dilemma, the noosphere, and the "Third Story" of human evolution and purpose. 2025 education projects included offering college courses and modules (with an educational research component); designing curricula, training teachers, and piloting modules in K-12 science classes, in alignment with national standards; and development of content for our first online course offering, on the Techno-Social Dilemma.
$217,991 spent31% of program spendingScience and technology research in collaboration with academic and institutional partners, focused on developing a better understanding of central concepts that underpin and support the concept of the Noosphere, including Superorganism, Global Brain and Collective Consciousness. Science and technology research includes research reports, scholarly papers, scholarly books, videos, workshops and interviews.
$94,307 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $697,000.
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 $134k to $348k (+159%).
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 Human Energy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Sheila Hassell Hughes
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $460k → $1.3M.
From the IRS filings of Human Energy’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Human Energy's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Human Energy runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Human Energy
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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kacyra Family Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Human Energy: 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 Human Energy?
- Human Energy (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,765,000 to it, the largest being Kacyra Family Foundation ($4,765,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Human Energy have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,765,000 in grants to Human Energy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Human Energy?
- Kacyra Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,765,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Human Energy 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.
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 1 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