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SYNAPTIC INSTITUTE INC

EIN 88-1024379 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2025
$360,561
Expenses 2025
$334,988

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E24
Classification
1200
Street
6536 SE DUKE ST 7

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

Mission

Providing care and connection to self, others, and the world at large. Our mission is to cultivate skillful, ethical, and socially responsible practitioners of entheogenic medicine rooted in holism, traditional wisdom, and science.

  • Clinical Services. We run an integrative clinic providing counseling services and holistic naturopathic mental health care. We specialized in ketamine assisted therapy for depression and anxiety.

    Expenses $289,413 · Revenue $299,676

  • Tuition & Training Services. We provided HECC and OPS accredited training that qualifies students to become licensed psilocybin facilitators in the state of Oregon. We also provide ketamine assisted therapy training that qualifies NDs to prescribe ketamine in Oregon.

    Expenses $4,099 · Revenue $4,099

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.

  • Olivia Hicks

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $51,147
    From this org
    $51,147
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Matthew Hicks

    President

    Total calculated
    $9,143
    From this org
    $9,143
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kathryn Tucker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Greg Robillard

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tahlia Harrison

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $360,561
    Expenses
    $334,988
    Contributions
    $56,786
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $145,054
    Expenses
    $159,320
    Contributions
    $47,249
    Grants paid
    $10
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $288,643
    Expenses
    $285,138
    Contributions
    $16,829
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $135,126
    Expenses
    $85,524
    Contributions
    $19,299
    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.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.