ZEPHYR INSTITUTE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

S05

Classification

2000

Street

560 COLLEGE AVE

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 · 2024

• THE ZEPHYR INSTITUTE'S CENTER OF THE STUDY OF FIRST PRINCIPLES PROVIDES A FORUM FOR SCHOLARS, STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS TO ENGAGE LIFE'S DEEPEST AND MOST ENDURING QUESTIONS. FROM OUR FLOURISHING SOCIETY GATHERINGS TO OUR ANNUAL ZEPHYR PHILOSOPHY CAMP, FIRST PRINCIPLES PROGRAMS EXAMINE THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND ASSUMPTIONS ON WHICH POPULAR MORAL, POLITICAL AND METAPHYSICAL THEORIES ARE BASED.

  Expenses $261,852 · Grants $31,202

• ZEPHYR'S CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PROFESSIONS AND MORAL PURPOSEHELPS STANFORD STUDENTS THINK DEEPLY ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICALFOUNDATIONS AND THE TELOS OF CULTURE-SHAPING PROFESSIONS. AS STANFORDSTUDENTS PREPARE TO PIONEER DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE,BUSINESS AND MEDIA, THEY NEED NOT ONLY PRACTICAL KNOW-HOW, BUT ALSO APROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THEIR WORK FITS INTO THE BROADER CONTEXTOF HUMAN HISTORY, WHAT THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THEIR PROFESSIONS ARE,AND HOW INNOVATIONS IN THESE FIELDS MIGHT BEST SERVE THE HUMAN FAMILY.THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PROFESSIONS AND MORAL PURPOSE OFFERS ANOPPORTUNITY FOR VIGOROUS DEBATE AND PROFOUND INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE,GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROFESSIONS MOST DIRECTLY SHAPINGSOCIAL NORMS.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $469,627

  Expenses

  $396,983

  Contributions

  $394,560

  Grants paid

  $31,202

• 2023

  Revenue

  $605,322

  Expenses

  $411,927

  Contributions

  $543,104

  Grants paid

  $2,360

• 2022

  Revenue

  $442,800

  Expenses

  $757,648

  Contributions

  $391,595

  Grants paid

  $93,521

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

  $561,845

  Expenses

  $493,022

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,553,468

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,072,143

  Expenses

  $380,461

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,516,298

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $472,342

  Expenses

  $438,414

  Assets (EOY)

  $783,851

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $528,220

  Expenses

  $476,049

  Assets (EOY)

  $748,981

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,336,842

  Expenses

  $1,030,016

  Assets (EOY)

  $696,326

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $739,304

  Expenses

  $640,391

  Assets (EOY)

  $389,700

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $569,260

  Expenses

  $307,040

  Assets (EOY)

  $293,047

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

• FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC

  $220,000

  2025 · General operations

• FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC

  $200,000

  2022 · General operations

• FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INC

  $200,000

  2023 · General operations

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $95,000

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC

  $40,000

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $40,000

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $40,000

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC

  $25,000

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC

  $25,000

  2024 · GENERAL PURPOSE

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