California · Nonprofit
Aware Meditation Inc
Aware Meditation Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,572 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($18,474). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Aware Meditation Inc does
Mission
Aware Meditation Inc.s global initiative endeavours to shift the collective stress consciousness. We provide simple self-sufficient stress reducing techniques. Once practiced on a daily basis the human nervous system stabilizes reducing anxiety fear and overwhelm allowing for increased mental clarity and cognitive ability. Shifting an attitude or mindset is only a temporary surface level tool which often causes disappointment and additional stress. Our practices are utilized to address underlying causes not symptoms. All initiatives are in alignment with the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rise Up Comedy - outreach program brining laughter and healing internationally. Rise Up Comedy Zoom shows with our new students expressing themselves with wellness and performing for a comedy show online for global attendance.
$800 spent73% of program spendingYouTube Programming - streaming live wellness talks group meditations and laughter streams to bring stress reduction techniques. Reaching an impact now of 107K views with over 10K subscribers to view.
$200 spent18% of program spendingGroup Meditations and Promotional Live Events - regular group meditations provided at 12 step meeting hall for all interested. Open group meditations provided for all to learn and attend stress reduction techniques. Hosted in North Hollywood offered online for all. Over 200 reached in person and multiple more streamed.
$100 spent9% of program spendingYouTube Outreach spanned 107K Total views 7.3k watch hours 10.74 subscribers. 50 videos viewed this year. Videos regarding mental health teenage anxiety laughter to help with stress reduction 12 days of meditation challenge and more educational videos on how wellness and meditation can help with physical and mental health. Providing sustainable techniques for viewers.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,100.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $12k to $4k (−70%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
68% of Aware Meditation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ashley Ware
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $17.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Aware Meditation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Aware Meditation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Aware Meditation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Aware Meditation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Aware Meditation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Aware Meditation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Aware Meditation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Aware Meditation Inc?
- Aware Meditation Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,572 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($18,474). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Aware Meditation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,572 in grants to Aware Meditation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Aware Meditation Inc?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,474 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Aware Meditation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing