On Being Project

“The organization did not have any committees with authority to act on behalf of the board of directors during the fiscal year covered by this return.”

“The organization's process for reviewing the form 990 has not changed from the prior year. The return continues to be reviewed in accordance with established governance procedures and is audited by an independent public accounting firm.”

“The organization's conflict of interest policy applies to any director, principal officer, or member of a committee with board-delegated powers. Each covered member annually signs a statement affirming that they have received a copy of the conflict of interest policy, has read and understands the policy, has agreed to comply with the policy and understands that the organization is a charitable organization that must engage primarily in activities that accomplish one or more of its exempt purposes.”

“The board of directors, independent from the ceo, reviewed and approved the current base and variable compensation for the ceo for fy2025”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Content from on being studios: fy25 accomplishments included production and distribution of podcast seasons of on being and of poetry unbound, with extensive digital extensions and marketing, production and distribution of the pause, and for poetry unbound on substack, as core complements to the podcast seasons. Targeted efforts across other distribution and engagement platforms (e.g., podcast listening growth on youtube) through data-driven audience development and strengthened visual presentation. Notable accomplishments included: immersive editions of the pause email newsletter, and two podcast seasons of poetry unbound, the continued success of poetry unbound's ongoing weekly substack newsletter and a special poems as teachers series as part of our work on conflict and the human condition.”

“Lab for the art of living: tools and resources in service of, and informed by, our content and convenings towards embodied wisdom and a life-giving imprint on the world around, breath to breath, and hour to hour. The lab is an emerging space to design offerings that extend and deepen our accompaniment and help people carry wisdom back into their lives. From the work and learnings of fy23, we moved forward with the lab's development and formal launch. We received dedicated funding to investigate the creation of a lab for the art of living a potentially expansive, revenue-generating, public-facing storefront. That investigation laid a groundwork for further expansion we might still pursue in the future with the right partners. In the immediate term, it yielded invaluable learning about the on being pedagogy as described and adapted by a range of people and places. It yielded a humble yet exciting first offering: the hope portal, with a recent initial beta release to participants in the 2024 on being gathering. In fall, 2024, on being is walking alongside 30 organizations to activate and test this seven-part experience designed to nurture communities of accompaniment at the intersection of inner life and life together. There is a world being remade filled with joy, moral imagination, and social creativity, but it is largely hidden from view. On being project's contribution to the generative landscape is to make this world, this different story of us, more vibrant and more real and to bring people more fully into their humanity, their vocation, and their agency.”

“During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the organization determined that certain trademark assets recorded in prior years were impaired and no longer provided future economic benefit to the organization. Upon further review, it was identified that these assets should have been written off in the prior period. Accordingly, a prior period adjustment was recorded to reduce net assets without donor restrictions as of june 30, 2024 by $50,000 to reflect the cumulative effect of the impairment loss related to these trademarks. The adjustment had no impact on current year revenues or expenses other than the restatement of beginning net assets.”