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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC

EIN 84-3926982 SANTA MONICA, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$1,805,696
Expenses 2024
$1,245,798

Program services were 94.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E05
Classification
1000
Street
2811 WILSHIRE BLVD STE 510

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

Mission

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS ("IACS OR ORGANIZATION") IS DEDICATED TO FURTHERING THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

  • ACCELERATING MEDITATION AND FOSTERING EMPATHY THROUGH NEUROSCIENCE. OUR RESEARCH EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND EMPATHY USING CUTTING-EDGE NEUROTECHNOLOGY.NEUROIMAGING-GUIDED NEUROMODULATION: WE EMPLOY FMRI, EEG, AND MACHINE LEARNING TO IDENTIFY AND INDUCE DEEP MEDITATIVE STATES IN VIPASSANA PRACTITIONERS, AIMING TO EXPEDITE AND PROLONG THESE EXPERIENCES.VIRTUAL REALITY NEUROFEEDBACK: UTILIZING EEG AND VR, WE GUIDE MEDITATORS TO OPTIMAL STATES, FOCUSING ON EFFICIENCY, DURATION, AND ADAPTABILITY FOR NOVICES.CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE OEMULATING ENTHEOGENIC STATES: WE SIMULATE SELF-TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES TO ENHANCE EMPATHIC CONCERN, ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS.PROSOCIAL AI DEVELOPMENT: WE'RE INVESTIGATING METHODS TO CULTIVATE EMPATHY IN ARTIFICIAL AGENTS THROUGH TARGETED LEARNING CURRICULA.AESTHETIC CHILLS AS BELIEF CATALYSTS: WE EXPLORE HOW PROFOUND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES CAN RESHAPE MINDSETS TOWARDS MORE BENEFICIAL PARADIGMS.OUR GOAL: TO DEEPEN SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS INTO CONSCIOUSNESS WHILE DEVELOPING TOOLS TO ENRICH HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND FOSTER EMPATHY IN BOTH BIOLOGICAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES.

    Expenses $1,180,988

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Nicco Reggente

    RESEARCH DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $136,000
    From this org
    $136,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Christof Koch

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Alexander Sasha Bystritsky

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin Monti

    TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Giulio Tononi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

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
    $1,805,696
    Expenses
    $1,245,798
    Contributions
    $1,805,696
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,252,687
    Expenses
    $1,319,103
    Contributions
    $1,252,687
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $705,591
    Expenses
    $1,025,240
    Contributions
    $647,659
    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
    $641,448
    Expenses
    $488,682
    Assets (EOY)
    $646,945

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $820,020
    Expenses
    $327,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $492,187

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.