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Yoga Alliance Registry

We advocate for yoga, in its wholeness, and for all human beings in theirs.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$505kInternational$197kEducation$95kHealth$75kRecreation & Sports$65kHuman Services$51kCivil Rights$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $52,681 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,681 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RefuSHE$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Yoga Alliance Registry’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Yoga Alliance Registrylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$687k · 4 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -57% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$687k
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-57%
-72%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IC
    IVY CHILD INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $560k · revenue -93% · 79% of their budget
  • YS
    YOGA SERVICE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $51k · revenue -94%
  • RI
    RefuSHE Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue -57%

Funded once

  • RV
    RECLAMATION VENTURES LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • GB
    GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $61k · revenue -72%
  • GY
    GATES YOGA ENTERPRISES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Shri Yoga Inc
Health
2
Yoga Research Foundation Inc
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3
The Yoga Healing Foundation of America Inc
Recreation & Sports
4
Yoga Peace Kula

To unite individuals of all ages, backgrounds, challenges and talents by extending yoga and mindfulness practices to people who otherwise would be unable to afford them.

—
5
Yoga Dana Foundation
Education
6
Tantrika International Inc

Creates bliss in the lives of people seeking change and profound connection. we use safe and powerful techniques to transform body and mind.

Human Services
7
House of Yoga
Human Services
8
The Bhakta School of Transformation

Yoga Science and Meditation Education

Human Services
9
Trauma Recovery Yoga

To provide trauma therapy services

—
10
Mahayogi Yoga Mission Inc

Teach Spiritual Learnings of Yoga

Religion
11
Yogautism Inc

Enhancing the lives of those with autism and their support networks through yoga inspired programs and experiences.

Health
12
Life in Yoga Institute Inc

Non-profit research and education in yoga

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yoga Service Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Khalsa Aid International Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IVY CHILD INTERNATIONAL: $560,436 · Youth DevelopmentIVY CHILD INTERNATIONALRECLAMATION VENTURES LLC: $75,000 · OtherRECLAMATION VENTURES LLCGATES YOGA ENTERPRISES INC: $25,000 · OtherGATES YOGA ENTERPRISES I…AWAKENING YOGA SPACES INC: $25,000 · OtherAWAKENING YOGA SPACES IN…SOULFEST LLC: $20,000 · OtherSOULFEST LLCOff The Mat Into The World DBA OTM Off the Mat: $20,000 · OtherOff The Mat Into The Wor…LAND YOGA: $20,000 · OtherLAND YOGAGIVEINDIA FUNDRAISERS: $10,536 · OtherBlack Yoga Teachers Alliance Inc: $10,000 · OtherLOVE YOGA STUDIO MD LLC: $9,000 · OtherYOGA SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $51,175 · Human ServicesMIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $15,000 · Human ServicesGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $61,000 · EducationAccessible Yoga Association: $30,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · HealthRefuSHE Inc: $45,000 · InternationalKHALSA AID INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $10,536 · Public Safety & Disaster
Youth Development$560,436Other$214,536Human Services$66,175Education$61,000Health$50,000International$45,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,536

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIVY CHILD INTERNATIONAL: $560,436 over 2y, 79% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetYOGA SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $51,175 over 2y, 20% of budgetRefuSHE Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAccessible Yoga Association: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOff The Mat Into The World DBA OTM Off the Mat: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKHALSA AID INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $10,536 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Yoga Alliance Registry funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yoga Alliance Registry. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Yoga Alliance Registry?

    Find your warmest path to Yoga Alliance Registry through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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