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Bhakti Ashram

Bhakti Ashram (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being Vedic Connections International ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$203k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$1.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bhakti Ashram does

Mission

Bhakti Ashrams purpose is to educate students and youth through Bhakti yoga and meditation providing free vegetarian food and providing free accommodation to practitioners. The Bhakti yoga tradition is a devotional spiritual path rooted in Hindu religious practice centered on the development of loving devotion to God through mantra meditation scriptural study devotional ceremonies kirtan and arati and communal fellowship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To educate students on managing stress though bhakti yoga and meditation to provide free vegetarian food for students and youth to nourish mind and soul and to provide free or subsidized accommodation to students,

    $215,666 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $215,666.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 19 ($203k) Expenses 488 ($216k) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)
20242025
Revenue (19)Expenses (488)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.3M (+10%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

6% of Bhakti Ashram’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’24
−$13k
’25
8.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20242025
Listed33
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Bhakti Ashram’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.

Where its funders are

Bhakti Ashram draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bhakti Ashram is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−81% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bhakti Ashram: 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 Bhakti Ashram?
Bhakti Ashram (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000,000 to it, the largest being Vedic Connections International ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Bhakti Ashram have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000,000 in grants to Bhakti Ashram.
Who is the largest funder of Bhakti Ashram?
Vedic Connections International is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bhakti Ashram find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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