Texas · Nonprofit
HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN
HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,152 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($107,680). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $708k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Hare Krishna Temple of Austin does
Mission
The mission of the Hare Krishna Temple of Austin is to promote the practice of spiritual culture founded on the principles of peace love and happiness. Our spiritual practices include mantra meditation studying timeless texts such as Bhagavad Gita distributing vegetarian food and singing and chanting using traditional Indian musical instruments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On a weekly basis we host our Sunday Feast program comprised of various teens and kids activities singing sessions to glorify the Lord classes on Vedic topics altar decoration and offerings and honoring of a feast offered to God. We also have more than six classes each week focused on studying Vedic scriptures practical application of Vedic teachings and the science of self-realization. Each Festival are celebrated through singing dancing outdoor displays skits and plays classes on Vedic topics and honoring of food offered to God.
$478,897 spent100% of program spendingWe aim to foster Vedic learning through distribution of Vedic literature in the greater Austin and Round Rock metropolitan area.
$0 spent$6,650 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $478,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.4M (+49%).
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.
94% of HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN’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. 0 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $62k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN’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
HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 89% · 2022 60% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“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
96% of HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN'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. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN: 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 HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN?
- HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,152 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($107,680). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $222,152 in grants to HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARE KRISHNA TEMPLE OF AUSTIN 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing