Arts, Culture & Humanities
Association For Research And Enlightenment Inc
VIRGINIA BCH, VA
Total revenue
$5.1M
Total expenses
$6.1M
Net assets
$16.3M
Grants received
$685K
19 grants
EIN
540573802
Tax year
2024
Mission
The mission of association for research and enlightenment (a.r.e.) is to create opportunities for profound personal change in body, mind, and spirit through the wisdom found in the edgar cayce material.
Programs
3 programs
Health and spa services: health and spa services provides and administers the health care modalities recommended in the edgar cayce readings while assisting individuals in utilizing their own innate healing abilities. Our goal is to provide application of the edgar cayce health readings in a responsible, caring and professional manner such that these services align with both the spirit and philosophy of the readings. The following services were provided: bodywork (including massage and acupressure), hydrotherapy (including colonics and steams),chiropractic, acupressure, hypnotherapy, counseling and energywork. The health center and spa provided care to a total of 5,991 in services for the year of 2024.
Memberships: a.r.e.'s total membership was 10,687 at 12/31/24. Some of our accomplishments in 2024, included: we provided a free annual membership (scholarships) to 124 individuals who were not able to pay for their membership in 2024.website:in 2024, edgarcayce.org had 597,109 visitors with 2,016,139 pageviews.top pages by views included the edgar cayce's association for research and enlightenment homepage, events & programs, seven prophecies yet to come, edgar cayce's life and readings, membership, exclusive member section, akashic records, a.r.e. Health center and spa, resources, therapies: castor oil packs, and the edgar cayce readings.top countries u.s., canada, england, australia, and india.website visitors came primarily from the u.s.here are some stats for our website: top countries producing traffic: (sessions/users)1. United states 753,702/470,1572. Canada 42,914/27,5283. United kingdom 21,651/14,7654. Australia 16,461/10,5245. India 6,861/4,7516. China 6,353/5,9187. Germany 5,776/4,2078. Netherlands 4,981/3,6069. France 4,663/2,99410. Ireland 3,983/2,777top sources of traffic included (in order of ranking): organicdirectsocialreferralpaid user devices were split into these three categories:61.8% mobile34.2% desktop4.0% tablet our facebook page had a total of 201,000 likes in 2024 and a total of 201,000 followers.our instagram page had 31,300 followers in 2024.our tiktok channel has 793 followers.
Publication and dissemination: promotes and sells a.r.e. Press publications. This sales venue is for the convenience of our members, donors, and supporters, including conferees, students, and spiritual / health seekers to assist them in improving their lives physically, mentally, and spiritually. This venue promotes and reaches outside of the local virginia beach demographics to national and international seekers.in-house publications: a.r.e. Press publishes and distributes books and media to wholesale and retail bookstores that are based on and related to the edgar cayce topics and teachings. Certain publications are also offered in spanish. All of a.r.e. Press publications are also available as ebooks and numerous titles are available as audiobooks.
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Expenses
People
24 listed
NICOLE CHARLES
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO (RETIRED)
$153K
38.5 hrs/wk
CASSIE MCQUAGGE
CO-EXECUTIVE INTERIM DIRECTOR
$94K
38.5 hrs/wk
PATRICIA LACY
DIRECTOR - CO
$93K
40 hrs/wk
JOHN VAN AUKEN
CO-EXECUTIVE INTERIM DIRECTOR
$84K
38.5 hrs/wk
TIM DUCKWORTH
DIRECTOR
$74K
40 hrs/wk
ZAIRE MCCULLOUGH
DIRECTOR
$65K
40 hrs/wk
JESSICA NEWELL
DIRECTOR
$55K
40 hrs/wk
ANTHONY REDDIN
TRUSTEE
—
1.25 hrs/wk
KEVIN REGER
TRUSTEE
—
1.25 hrs/wk
CARA ROMANZO
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
JOHN SCHROEDER
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
JOY SCOTT
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
DOUG KNUEVEN THRU JUNE 2024
TRUSTEE, FORMER BOARD CHAIR
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1.25 hrs/wk
ARTHUR P STRICKLAND THRU JUNE 2024
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
MARK THURSTON
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
KATHLEEN WELSCH
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
PEARL B MARIA WILKINSON
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
DIANNE STANFORD
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
MARIANNE SPLENDA
TRUSTEE, BOARD CHAIR
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1.25 hrs/wk
BERNIE COOMES
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
DONITA M KING
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
ALLISON MILLS-LONG
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
DOUG MUHA
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
LILIAN H PAILIEN
TRUSTEE
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1.25 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
SH FAHRENHEIT ADVISORS LLC
BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES
KAUFMAN & CANOLES
LEGAL SERVICES
Grants received
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$51K · 2 grants · 2022–2023
$10K · 1 grant · 2021
$9K · 1 grant · 2020