Liabilities / Assets
26th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Siviq Scores
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
0.00x
Liabilities / Revenue
26th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Net Margin
91st percentile
Higher net margin than 91% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
49th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 49% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
89th percentile
Faster asset growth than 89% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
64th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 64% of similar nonprofits.
Balance Sheet
Assets
Up$490,247
Up $156,047 (+47%) from 2015
Net Assets
Up$490,247
Up $156,047 (+47%) from 2015
Liabilities
Flat$0
Flat from 2015
Revenue And Expenses
Revenue
Up$560,499
Up $54,949 (+11%) from 2015
Expenses
Down$305,283
Down $88,825 (-23%) from 2015
Net Income
Up$255,216
Up $143,774 (+129%) from 2015
Historical Trend
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Filing Snapshot
- Filing Period
- Jan 1, 2016 to Dec 31, 2016
- Signed
- Oct 15, 2017
- Return Version
- 2016v3.0
- Gross Receipts
- $560,499
Mission and Program Overview
Mission
Part I.1 and Part III.1Our Mission Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation (POGWF) brings Indo-Tibetan meditation and teachings to Western students and nurtures and supports the community of practitioners. In turn, POGWF provides support back to the indigenous communities and lineage teachers to help them to preserve and restore their culture and traditions. Historically, POGWF generally has not provided programming to achieve its mission. The majority of our objectives involve directing donor funds to other organizations, both in the U.S. and abroad, who implement the stated projects. Our translation projects are a notable exception. POGWF is an all-volunteer organization.
Part I.1 and Part III.1Our Mission Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation (POGWF) brings Indo-Tibetan meditation and teachings to Western students and nurtures and supports the community of practitioners. In tum, POGWF provides support back to the indigenous communities and lineage teachers to help them to preserve and restore their culture and traditions. Historically, POGWF generally has not provided programming to achieve its mission. The majority of our objectives involve directing donor funds to other organizations, both in the U.S. and abroad, who implement the stated projects. Our translation projects are a notable exception. POGWF is an all-volunteer organization.
Balance Sheet Detail
| Line | Beginning | End | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | |||
| Cash and Non-Interest-Bearing Accounts | $235,030 | $490,247 | ▲ $255,217 |
| Savings and Temporary Cash Investments | - | $0 | - |
| Accounts Receivable | - | $0 | - |
| Other Notes and Loans Receivable, Net | - | $0 | - |
| Pledges and Grants Receivable | - | $0 | - |
| Receivable From Disqualified Prsn | - | $0 | - |
| Receivables From Officers Etc | - | $0 | - |
| Investments Other Securities | - | $0 | - |
| Investments Program Related | - | $0 | - |
| Investments in Publicly Traded Securities | - | $0 | - |
| Land, Buildings, and Equipment, Net | - | $0 | - |
| Intangible Assets | - | $0 | - |
| Inventories for Sale or Use | - | $0 | - |
| Prepaid Expenses and Deferred Charges | - | $0 | - |
| Total Assets | $235,030 | $490,247 | ▲ $255,217 |
| Other Assets Total | - | $0 | - |
| Liabilities | |||
| Total Liabilities | $0 | $0 | → $0 |
| Net Assets / Fund Balance | |||
| Permanently Rstr Net Assets | $157,137 | $400,180 | ▲ $243,043 |
| Unrestricted Net Assets | $77,893 | $90,067 | ▲ $12,174 |
| Total Net Assets Fund Balance | $235,030 | $490,247 | ▲ $255,217 |
| Total Liabilities and Net Assets / Fund Balance | $235,030 | $490,247 | ▲ $255,217 |
Compensation and Service Providers
Board Members and Trustees
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Brenda Gibson | President & CEO |
| Karin Case | Director |
| Mark Roudebush | Director |
| Richard Colman | Secretary |
| Paula Sacks | Treasurer |
Highest Paid Contractors
| Contractor | Services | Location | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Brown | Translation | 28R STANWOOD AVENUE, W Gloucester, MA 01930 | $175,000 |
Revenue and Support
Revenue Composition
- Contributions and Grants
- $560,499
- Program Service Revenue
- $0
- Investment Income
- $0
- Other Revenue
- $0
- All Other Contributions
- $560,499
- Change in Net Assets
- $255,216
Expenses and Functional Allocation
Major Expense Lines
| Line Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Other Expenses | $226,857 |
| Grants and Similar Amounts Paid | $65,926 |
| Professional Fundraising Fees | $12,500 |
| Total Fundraising Expense | $12,500 |
| Salaries, Compensation, and Employee Benefits | $0 |
Functional Expense Allocation
| Line Item | Program | Management | Fundraising | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fees for Services Other | $223,000 | $1,138 | - | $224,138 |
| Foreign Grants | $49,600 | - | - | $49,600 |
| Grants to Domestic Orgs | $16,326 | - | - | $16,326 |
| Fees for Services Professional Fundraising | - | - | $12,500 | $12,500 |
| Travel | $1,306 | - | - | $1,306 |
| Other Expenses | $1,800 | $-971 | - | $-971 |
| Total Functional Expenses | $292,032 | $751 | $12,500 | $305,283 |
International Activity
Grant and Assistance Recipients
| Recipient | Location | Category | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State | Petersburg, NY | - | Stupa Project | $16,326 |
International Compliance
- Activity in boycott countries
- No
- Foreign corporation ownership
- No
- Foreign partnership interest
- No
- Interest in foreign trust
- No
- Passive foreign investment company interest
- No
- Transfers to foreign corporations
- No
Fundraising, Events, and Gaming
- Fundraising activities
- No
- Gaming activities
- No
- Professional fundraiser used
- No
Fundraising and Gaming Totals
| Line Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Professional Fundraising Fees | $12,500 |
Political and Lobbying Activity
- Political campaign activity
- No
- Lobbying activity
- No
- Subject to proxy tax
- No
Insider Transactions and Loans
Loans and Receivables
| Line Item | Beginning | End | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivables from Disqualified Persons | - | $0 | - |
| Receivables from Officers, Directors, Trustees, and Key Employees | - | $0 | - |
Governance and Compliance
Governance Checklist
- Compiled or reviewed by an accountant
- No
- Annual disclosure for covered persons
- Yes
- Backup withholding compliance
- No
- Business relationship with family members
- No
- Business relationship with organization members
- No
- Material changes to governing documents
- Yes
- Compensation from other sources disclosed
- No
- CEO compensation reviewed
- No
- Other officer compensation reviewed
- No
- Conflict-of-interest policy
- Yes
- Audited financial statements prepared
- No
- Key decisions subject to board approval
- No
- Management duties delegated
- No
Governance Explanations
Form 990, Part VI, Line 11B: Form 990 Review Process
“The President and Secretary of the board shared responsibility for preparation, review, and filing of this 2016 Form 990. They will review the Form 990 with board members at their next scheduled meeting.”
Form 990, Part VI, Line 12C: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts
“POGWF had a conflicts of interest policy in place. The nature of the projects funded thus far by POGWF has precluded the potential for conflicts of interest by the members of the board. Consistent awareness exists of the need to identify conflicts of interest by its directors, and POGWF will develop more robust procedures to monitor for conflicts in the future should the nature of our projects change.”
Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available
“POGWF will make its Form 990 and application for exempt status available upon request in accordance with applicable rules. No requests for information were received in 2016.”
Filing and Contact Details
Filer
- Filer Name
- Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation
- EIN
- 46-0544333
- Phone
- 9783712015
- Address
- 18 AUDUBON LANE, CARLISLE, MA 01741
Signing Officer
- Name
- Paula Sacks
- Title
- Treasurer
- Signed
- 2017-10-15
- Discuss with paid preparer
- Yes
Organization Details
- Principal Officer
- Richard Colman
- Formed
- 2012
- Legal Domicile
- De
- Voting Board Members
- 8
- Independent Board Members
- 0
- Employees
- 0
Preparer
- Firm
- Colman Knight Advisory Group LLC
- Address
- 18 Audubon Lane, Carlisle, MA 01741
- Preparer
- Richard K Colman
- Phone
- 9783712015
Supplemental Narrative
Additional Explanations
Form 990, Part III, Line 2: New Services
“The Foundation has taken on the mission to assist revitalizing the indigenous culture in Mustang by funding the development of a Cultural Center, school, dormitories and Temple in Jomsom, Mustang Nepal. The project has been approved and is under the auspices of His Holiness Menri Trezin, the spiritual leader of the Bon.The Foundation is working with Geshe Sonam who is collaborating with 6 other Geshes of the Bon tradition under the guidance of HH Menri Trezin. The Foundation spent $48,000 in architectural services in 2016.”
Form 990, Part III, Line 4D: Other Program Services Description
“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: 4d, Part IIIOther Program Services (Part III, 4 d )Rahob Foundation Stupa Project Rahob Rinpoche is considered an emanation of Padmasambhava and is the incarnate Tulku of Rahob Monastary in old Tibet. He currently is head of the Rahob Dharma center in the Berkshires area of New York. Rahob Rinpoche is one of the lineage holders who teaches in the POGWF community. In old Tibet students would honor a great master by erecting a stupa in memory of their teacher. It was an even greater sign of love and respect to erect it while their teacher was still living. This commemorative monument usually houses sacred relics. The Rahob Dharma Center is in the process of constructing a stupa in honor of Rinpoche. Students from our community directed donations to this project. In 2016, we provided $16,326 of support to the Rahob Development Fund for the stupa.Menri Monastery, IndiaIn 2016, POGWF provided $4,000 in support to the nunnery at Menri Monastery in India. This support enabled them to purchase a water storage tank for the facility.MCEC Historic Temple RepairsIn 2016, POGWF received donations to cover funds that we advanced to the Mustang Culture and Education Centre for its expenditures to repair an ancient temple roof in Mustang.”
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| IRS990/ProgSrvcAccomActy2Grp/Desc | 0 | 4b (Code: ) (Expenses $48,000 including grants of $ ) (Revene $298,888)The Mustang Culture and Education Centre (MCEC), based in Jomsom, Mustang Nepal, is a registered social organization aimed at supporting the education of local children, bettering living conditions of the village population, and preserving its unique culture and traditionsMCEC has identified as an imperative the need to restore the cultural and spritiual traditions for the indigenous Tibetan population living in this area of Nepal. The Bon, the indigenous and oldest religion of Tibet, has strong roots in Mustang. The religious practices of Bon, centered around local monasteries, have traditionally been the heart of cultural and religious life for the indigenous populations in this region. However, currently no Bon po monastery exists in the area to support these practices for the local population. MCECs objective is to construct, on land donated by the community, an indigenous spiritual and cultural campus in Jomsom, the administrative center of Mustang. MCECs vision for the campus includes: a main Bon temple and living space for a 100 monks; a youth hostel for 100 childrenall learning their indigenous Tibetan language and spiritual practices; and a 50-room guest house for advanced Western students. The monastery will serve as a hub for revitalizing local indigenous religious practices. Lamas and monks will be available to the local population to offer the range of prayers and rituals that once were a vital part of every aspect of local life in Mustang. These practices include religious practices for birth, death, protection, disease-prevention, farming, and protecting the harvest. The monastery will be a place for the depository and preservation of old manuscripts, the reprints of widely used spiritual texts, and for traditional arts and paintings. It also will be a place to pass on practices for making and maintaining traditional stupas. Building a monastery will ensure a population of lamas and monks to serve the local population for generations to come. The integration of the youth hostel into the campus will mean relocating the children from the existing rented facility in the town. The existing facility is already at maximum capacity with the 38 students it currently houses. The new facility will allow MCEC to expand, through time, to 100 students. It also will be a significant improvement in living conditions for the children and will locate them nearer to the Nepalese school that they attend. Most importantly, integrating them into the campus will place them nearer the monks, who will play an important role in educating these students in their cultural and spiritual traditions, including their Tibetan language. For more on the children, see our description of the MCEC Childrens Home below. The plan for the spiritual campus also includes a guesthouse to accommodate visiting students from the West. The hope is that the guesthouse will create a demand for advanced teachings from the culture of the cave and hermitage yogis in a way that will revitalize the cave and hermitage yogi culture. The ability to receive these advanced teachings and practices in this setting will be a unique opportunity for qualified Western students from the POGWF network.Supporting the MCEC Indigenous Tibetan Spiritual and Cultural Campus project is a top priority for POGWF. The great hope of this project is that it will help to restore and revitalize these precious teachings in their indigenous setting. Without some intervention, the risk is great that these practices will die out in the region in this generation. We see our support of this project as paramount to fulfilling our mission to support the indigenous communities and lineage teachers in preserving their culture and traditions. Helping to bring this campus to fruition will be an expression of gratitude to these indigenous cultures for sharing their most precious teachings and practices with our spiritual community in |
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| IRS990/ProgSrvcAccomActy3Grp/Desc | 0 | 4c (Code: ) (Expenses $45,600 including grants of $ 45,600 ) (Revene $55,933)The Childrens Home is an ongoing project of the Mustang Culture and Education Centre (MCEC). One goal of the project is to help disadvantged children in Mustang to receive a quality education near to their families. In addition, the project specifically addresses the needs of the children of the indigenous community in the area by educating the children about their cultural heritage. The Childrens Home, a boarding home founded in 2012 by Geshe Sonam Gurung, created an opportunity for educating the children in the rural villages who otherwise likely could not have attended school. The villages do not have schools, and the government-sponsored school in Jomsom can be as much as a four-hour walk away. In order to attend, these students need to be able to live nearer the school. These rural families could not afford the annual tution at the Nepalese school, let alone additional boarding fees. As a result, many of these children would likely have stayed and worked on the farms. The MCEC Childrens Home is located in the town of Jomsom, just a short walk from the Nepalese school, where the children receive their core curriculum, and near enough to the villages that families can maintain good contact with their children. MCEC provides scholarships for the children living in the Childrens Home. This scholarship includes tuition, room and board, books, supplies, uniforms, and examination fees. But the Childrens Home plays another crucial role for the indigenous population. In 1954 the Nepalese government established a national educational policy. The advantage of this policy was that children in Nepal could get a good education at a government sponsored Nepalese school. The disadvantage was that the policy of Nepal required that all children in school learn Nepali and English. This policy meant that the children of indigenous ethnic groups no longer learned their indigenous ethnic languages. The consequence for the last two generations of indigenous Tibetan people in the Mustang region of Nepal is that they did not learn to speak their indigenous Tibetan language and therefore cannot read their own sacred texts or do their familiar prayers and rituals. The MCEC Childrens Home bridges the gap between the Nepalese educational policy and the cultural needs of this indigenous community. In the morning, before attending Nepalese school, and again in the evening, the children learn to read, write, and speak their indigenous Tibetan language. They learn Tibetan history and traditional Tibetan prayers and rituals. We are beginning to see the positive outcomes of the project. The grandparents who still speak Tibetan are amazed to see their grandchildren, home during the school holidays, speaking Tibetan, chanting Tibetan prayers, and doing familiar rituals in Tibetan. The long-term goal is to restore their cultural heritage to this generation of children and thereby revitalize the native Tibetan Bon and Buddhist practices in Mustang.The Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation (POGWF) partners with MCEC by finding sponsors for each of the children. Currently, the cost of sponsorship is $1,000 per child. We have committed to following each child until they graduate from school. In 2016, our meditation community worldwide provided full scholarships for all 38 children at the school. Donors provided additional support to MCEC for enhanced nutrition, firewood, clothing, and other needed supplies and repairs to the boarding facility. Our support in 2016 was $45,600. |
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 0 | The Foundation has taken on the mission to assist revitalizing the indigenous culture in Mustang by funding the development of a Cultural Center, school, dormitories and Temple in Jomsom, Mustang Nepal. The project has been approved and is under the auspices of His Holiness Menri Trezin, the spiritual leader of the Bon.The Foundation is working with Geshe Sonam who is collaborating with 6 other Geshes of the Bon tradition under the guidance of HH Menri Trezin. The Foundation spent $48,000 in architectural services in 2016. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 1 | OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: 4d, Part IIIOther Program Services (Part III, 4 d )Rahob Foundation Stupa Project Rahob Rinpoche is considered an emanation of Padmasambhava and is the incarnate Tulku of Rahob Monastary in old Tibet. He currently is head of the Rahob Dharma center in the Berkshires area of New York. Rahob Rinpoche is one of the lineage holders who teaches in the POGWF community. In old Tibet students would honor a great master by erecting a stupa in memory of their teacher. It was an even greater sign of love and respect to erect it while their teacher was still living. This commemorative monument usually houses sacred relics. The Rahob Dharma Center is in the process of constructing a stupa in honor of Rinpoche. Students from our community directed donations to this project. In 2016, we provided $16,326 of support to the Rahob Development Fund for the stupa.Menri Monastery, IndiaIn 2016, POGWF provided $4,000 in support to the nunnery at Menri Monastery in India. This support enabled them to purchase a water storage tank for the facility.MCEC Historic Temple RepairsIn 2016, POGWF received donations to cover funds that we advanced to the Mustang Culture and Education Centre for its expenditures to repair an ancient temple roof in Mustang. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 2 | The President and Secretary of the board shared responsibility for preparation, review, and filing of this 2016 Form 990. They will review the Form 990 with board members at their next scheduled meeting. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 3 | POGWF had a conflicts of interest policy in place. The nature of the projects funded thus far by POGWF has precluded the potential for conflicts of interest by the members of the board. Consistent awareness exists of the need to identify conflicts of interest by its directors, and POGWF will develop more robust procedures to monitor for conflicts in the future should the nature of our projects change. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 4 | POGWF will make its Form 990 and application for exempt status available upon request in accordance with applicable rules. No requests for information were received in 2016. |
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2016 • Form 990Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
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- $490,247
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- $490,247
- Revenue
- $560,499
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- $305,283
- Net income
- $255,216