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INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES

EIN 23-7236986 NOVATO, CA

Revenue 2023
$4,320,931
Expenses 2023
$3,175,633

Program services were 62.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U050
Classification
2800
Street
7250 REDWOOD BLVD STE 208

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 · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES IS TO REVEAL THE INTERCONNECTED NATURE OF REALITY THROUGH SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION AND PERSONAL DISCOVERY.

  • RESEARCH & EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION: WITH 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IONS IS A RESPECTED THOUGHT LEADER IN THE FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE. THIS FISCAL YEAR WE CONDUCTED RESEARCH ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD, CHAMPIONING TWO PILLARS OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN: IONS DISCOVERY LAB, THE LARGEST STUDY EVER DONE ON TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICES; AND IONSX, OUR CUTTING-EDGE APPLICATION-DRIVEN RESEARCH PROGRAM. THROUGH THESE EFFORTS, WE COMPLETED 4 RESEARCH PROJECTS, COLLECTED 1,510 RECORDS THROUGH THE IONS DISCOVERY LAB, SUPPORTED 9 RESEARCH FELLOWS, PUBLISHED 8 PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, RECEIVED 5,481 CITATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED SCIENCE JOURNALS, AND TRAINED 20 VOLUNTEERS. IONS ALSO SERVED 24,000 INDIVIDUALS IN ITS CORE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THROUGH WEBINARS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS, INCLUDING GLOBAL MIND CHANGE IN ACTION, NOETICS 101, THE SCIENCE OF CHANNELING, LUCID DREAMING & LIVING LUCIDLY.

    Expenses $1,994,902 · Grants $100 · Revenue $221,153

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

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CLAUDIA WELSS

    CHAIR, CEO

    Total calculated
    $300,000
    From this org
    $300,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $300,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $300,000

  • AZIM KHAMISA

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STACEY LAWSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL POTTS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICHARD COHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HARRIETT CROSBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID DOMINIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK GOBER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH HUNTINGTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CALVIN LEHEW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA O'BRYANT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE ZIMMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAULINA YAMPOLSKY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS BROPHY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHNNY CALVERT

    CFO & ASST T

    Total calculated
    $146,600
    From this org
    $135,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,485
    Hours/week
    40

  • KERSTIN SJOQUIST

    DIR OF EXPER

    Total calculated
    $127,263
    From this org
    $118,409
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,854
    Hours/week
    40

  • HELANE WAHBEH

    DIRECTOR OF

    Total calculated
    $143,094
    From this org
    $133,111
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,983
    Hours/week
    40

  • GARRET YOUNT

    SCIENTIST

    Total calculated
    $118,395
    From this org
    $110,135
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,260
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,320,931
    Expenses
    $3,175,633
    Contributions
    $2,143,733
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,361,289
    Expenses
    $3,610,990
    Contributions
    $4,075,687
    Grants paid
    $100,000

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
    $12,874,224
    Expenses
    $3,876,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,708,044

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,201,204
    Expenses
    $3,844,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,537,832

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,355,912
    Expenses
    $4,969,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,780,317

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,712,024
    Expenses
    $5,698,747
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,444,584

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,486,871
    Expenses
    $5,569,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,200,196

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,636,808
    Expenses
    $5,024,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,354,618

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,205,978
    Expenses
    $4,753,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,817,608

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,793,336
    Expenses
    $4,667,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,189,012

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,093,839
    Expenses
    $4,852,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,673,252

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,450,226
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,460,397

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.