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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,107,939
Total expenses
$4,759,087
Contributions and grants received
$2,117,728
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,987,611
Investment income
$2,600
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,990,300
Total liabilities, end of year
$222,830
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,767,470
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,157,445
Management and general expenses
$551,428
Fundraising expenses
$50,214
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,157,445

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,117,728

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $212,401

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Mindful Community

    total $924,514 · related or exempt $924,514

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Rise Up Programs

    total $725,673 · related or exempt $725,673

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Hybrid Services

    total $337,424 · related or exempt $337,424

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $22 · excluded $22

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $683,214

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $680,636

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $2,578

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $2,578 · excluded $2,578

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $170,000 · program services $93,500 · management and general $63,750 · fundraising $12,750

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $3,555,535 · program services $3,185,158 · management and general $352,149 · fundraising $18,228

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $4,826 · program services $4,421 · management and general $378 · fundraising $27

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $141,583 · program services $129,599 · management and general $11,583 · fundraising $401

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $339,638 · program services $299,031 · management and general $37,778 · fundraising $2,829

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $40,066 · program services $34,824 · management and general $4,863 · fundraising $379

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $196,758 · program services $172,584 · management and general $24,131 · fundraising $43

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,485 · fundraising $6,485

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $41,675 · program services $25,345 · management and general $14,487 · fundraising $1,843

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $65,184 · program services $56,369 · management and general $8,222 · fundraising $593

  • 17 · Travel

    total $49,197 · program services $32,746 · management and general $15,721 · fundraising $730

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $7,358 · management and general $2,358 · fundraising $5,000

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $63,294 · program services $55,306 · management and general $7,443 · fundraising $545

  • 24a · Other expenses: Program supplies

    total $56,615 · program services $51,757 · management and general $4,654 · fundraising $204

  • 24b · Other expenses: Recruitment

    total $7,609 · program services $6,538 · management and general $1,005 · fundraising $66

  • 24c · Other expenses: Professional developmen

    total $4,792 · program services $4,026 · management and general $744 · fundraising $22

  • 24d · Other expenses: Fingerprinting

    total $4,339 · program services $3,718 · management and general $576 · fundraising $45

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $4,133 · program services $2,523 · management and general $1,586 · fundraising $24

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,359,917 · end of year $1,093,844

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,143,899 · end of year $759,950

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $22,476 · end of year $26,056

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $26,788

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $15,037

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $19,109 · end of year $11,751

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $137,070 · end of year $98,699

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $119,403 · end of year $110,211

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $8,000 · end of year $14,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $136,590 · end of year $98,619

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $573,173 · end of year $947,711

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,845,305 · end of year $819,759

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Empower underserved students and their teachers through mindfulness and other transformative skills to gain self-awareness, confidence, self-regulation and resilience, leading to lifelong success.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Empower underserved students and their teachers through mindfulness and other transformative skills.

  • Mindful Community: Our Mindful Community whole-school program provided over 25,000 students with mindfulness-based social emotional programming weekly during the 2023-2024 school year. The 25 minute sessions help cultivate a whole-school foundation of mental wellness and emotional intelligence through lessons delivered weekly during the regular school day. Mindful Community is particularly impactful as its social-emotional learning programming is delivered to every student on a school campus, emphasizing the school's cultural focus on wellness. Mindful Community has helped schools cultivate ecosystems of mental health and wellness, which can lead to thriving school environments. In the 2023-2024 school year, 91% of students stated that mindfulness was important to them. MLP asked teachers to rate our programming on a scale of 1-10. The following metrics are how the scoring is being interpreted: [10-9 - extremely effective, 8-7 - very effective, 6-5 - effective, 4-3 - not effective, 2-1 - extremely ineffective]. Teachers rated Mindful Community a 8.1/10 (very effective) for helping create healthier learning environments in the classroom, with a reported gain of 19 minutes of average quality teaching time per day as a direct result of MLP's programming! Overall, 96% of teachers reported that they saw improvements in their students' self awareness, and 93% of teachers saw improvements in their student's ability to relate to one another. In all, Mindful Community betters schools' climates to emphasize the importance of mental and emotional health by providing students with mindfulness based tools to help them in their daily lives.

    Expenses $2,162,577 · Revenue $924,514

  • Rise Up: In the 2023-2024 school year, MLP's Rise Up program provided over 2,700 students with curated mindfulness-based support. Rise Up's signature programs feature a wide array of means to help high-need students and students impacted by trauma to explore lived experiences in an emotionally safe community alongside their peers. Using accessible avenues such as music, art, dance, poetry, yoga, and performing arts, all interwoven with mindfulness, students can explore different methods for healthy emotional release and inner exploration. MLP surveyed teachers on and asked them of their perceived impact of our Rise Up Programming. Overall, 89% rated that they have a better understanding of the needs of their Rise Up students and 90% reported that they are better able to establish more supportive relationships with their Rise Up students. Rise Up is an incredibly powerful program that impacts both teachers and students within a school. To quote a 4th grade teacher from a partner school, one of the highlights from Mindful Life Project's programming was that "mindfulness was helpful with the Rise Up students because it gives them the strategies they need to succeed."

    Expenses $1,678,739 · Revenue $725,673

  • Hybrid Services: MLP offers a hybrid whole-school program, Mindfulness 360. Mindfulness 360 is a customizable program that includes a combination of mindful hip hop assemblies, weekly live virtual mindfulness sessions, in-person classroom sessions, teacher professional development sessions and regular mindfulness sessions for teachers & families. Using a highly flexible model of programming, Mindfulness 360 can accommodate nearly every social-emotional need of students. During 2023-2024, Mindfulness 360 was highly sought after, with over 15,000 students receiving services! Schools ranged in location from Monterey, Stockton, Vallejo, San Jose, and San Bruno. In fact, 78% of Mindfulness 360 students stated that mindfulness is now important to them because of their exposure through our MLP hybrid services. MLP also continues to offer mindfulness trainings for personal well-being to community-based and other organizations. Our training program is designed to support educators & communities, and provide them with tools and resources to create healthy thriving school & community ecosystems.

    Expenses $316,129 · Revenue $337,424

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Andrew Nance

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Darren Main

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erika Matamadas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Geoff Kerr

    Secretary/Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hardik Kheskani

    Board Member/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jiffy Iuen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kelly Bathgate

    Board Member/Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Olivia Bowser

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Rajput

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ruchika Sikri

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stefanie Phillips

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yanell Selman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pat Flanagan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shaheena Khan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tracy Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JG Larochette

    President

    Total calculated
    $170,212
    From this org
    $170,212
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,212
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $170,212

  • Haydn Griffith

    Director of Finance

    Total calculated
    $114,288
    From this org
    $107,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,138
    Hours/week
    40

  • Theresa Cabral

    Director of Talent & Operations

    Total calculated
    $132,888
    From this org
    $107,227
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,661
    Hours/week
    40

  • Adiagha Mbonisi

    Sr Director, Operations & Programs

    Total calculated
    $111,055
    From this org
    $104,101
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,954
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carolina Valverde

    Sr Director, Development and Marketing

    Total calculated
    $122,719
    From this org
    $118,368
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,351
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 3
The executive compensation is reviewed and approved by the Board annually.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
12 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403189349300310

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