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MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC

EIN 85-1313799 SAN RAFAEL, CA

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Revenue 2025
$99,939
Expenses 2025
$153,064

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2000
Street
4460 REDWOOD HWY STE 16 PMB 547

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

THE ACADEMY'S MISSION IS TO BE A CATALYST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES THAT INTERWEAVE OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE, SCIENCE AND ANCESTRAL WISDOM.

  • EDUCATION: PROVIDES IN-PERSON AND ONLINE COURSES, WORKSHOPS, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF ETHNOBOTANY, ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, CONSERVATION, AND RELATED FIELDS. PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE COMPLEX RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES. IN 2025, EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS REACHED APPROXIMATELY 400 PARTICIPANTS THROUGH THEMATIC CAMPAIGNS, STRUCTURED ONLINE CLASSES, AND COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

    Expenses $10,144

  • MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS: PRODUCES AND DISTRIBUTES DOCUMENTARY FILMS, PODCASTS, AND OTHER MEDIA TO PRESERVE, SHARE, AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE IN ETHNOBOTANY, ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, INDIGENOUS WISDOM TRADITIONS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP. MEDIA OUTPUTS INCLUDE DOCUMENTARY SERIES, DIGITIZATION PROJECTS, EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, AND RECORDED INTERVIEWS. IN 2025, THESE MATERIALS WERE VIEWED OR DOWNLOADED MORE THAN 115,000 TIMES, EXPANDING GLOBAL ACCESS TO SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE.

    Expenses $20,578

  • SYMPOSIUMS AND LIVE EVENTS: ORGANIZES LARGE-SCALE GATHERINGS-BOTH IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL-BRINGING TOGETHER LEADING RESEARCHERS, INDIGENOUS LEADERS, AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FOR KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. EVENTS RANGE FROM GLOBAL SYMPOSIUMS, SUCH AS THE ETHNOPHARMACOLOGIC SEARCH FOR PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS (ESPD) CONFERENCE, TO INTERNATIONAL FORUMS LIKE THE COCA FORUM IN CUSCO, PERU. IN 2025, SYMPOSIUMS AND LIVE EVENTS FEATURED MORE THAN 60 SPEAKERS AND REACHED OVER 1000 ATTENDEES WORLDWIDE, WITH RECORDED CONTENT MADE FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE.

    Expenses $92,250

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Rebecca Lazarou

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ranji Varghese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robb Duncan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bob Fisk

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $15,000
    Compensation
    $15,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Annette Badenhorst

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $15,000
    Compensation
    $15,000
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Dennis McKenna

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $99,939
    Expenses
    $153,064
    Contributions
    $92,998
    Grants paid
    $6,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $193,638
    Expenses
    $147,018
    Contributions
    $187,137
    Grants paid
    $21,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $170,151
    Expenses
    $272,146
    Contributions
    $170,148
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $485,989
    Expenses
    $502,301
    Contributions
    $485,657
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,270
    Expenses
    $147,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,838

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,987
    Expenses
    $57,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,432

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.