California · Nonprofit
BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC
BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $837 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($837). 1 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 FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $837
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing Inc does
Mission
To provide the ancient religious wisdom of India, as presented by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, to the English language programs of ISKCON, as well as libraries, bookstores, and ISKCON congregation members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided grant funds to Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, which allocates funding for ISKCON (Hare Krishna movement) projects and temples worldwide. Our revenue derives from the sales of religious books to temples, bookstores, ISKCON congregations, and libraries. In 2025 we distributed 1,097,978 religious books and printed 690,076 total literatures. We also distributed a monthly newsletter to ISKCON members and congregations.
$985,971 spentof which $586,496 as grants$3,057,090 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $985,971.
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.
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 $3.3M to $5.6M (+67%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $163 → $114.
1 of 1 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 BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING 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. $837 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING 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 BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC?
- BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $837 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($837). 1 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 BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $837 in grants to BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK PUBLISHING 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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