New Mexico · Nonprofit
KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,349,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,240,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Kundalini Research Institute does
Mission
Our mission is to make the benefits and practice of kundalini yoga, based on the teaching of yogi bhajan, accessible to all people from all backgrounds. We strive to uphold three pillars of purpose: training and education of students and teachers, conducting research on the benefits of kundalini yoga, publishing authentic material about kundalini yoga, and collaborating in the creation of resources with teachers and students globally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We strive to uphold three pillars of purpose: training and education of students and teachers, conducting research on the benefits of kundalini yoga, publishing authentic material about kundalini yoga, and collaborating in the creation of resources with teachers and students globally. Training & education kri collaborates with teacher trainers around the world to create the global methods and standards for training and certifying kundalini yoga teachers. The aim is not just to create more than instructors of yoga able to lead exercises, but emotionally and spiritually mature human beings able and willing to serve humanity through their own unique gifts. From the beginning, teachers are taught to build leadership in students instead of focusing on collecting students. We want to bring this helpful, healing practice to more people and not focus on any one individual. By sharing widely, we seek to foster a culture of true equanimity. This is a collectively focused training program divided into three levels of certification. Research many practitioners experience kundalini yoga as a way to access the natural healing capacity of our own body and mind. But todays healthcare environment…
$1,311,134 spent$1,220,078 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,311,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $5.7M (+111%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Harimandir Kaur Khalsa
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $259k → $523k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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
KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 68% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 30 related entities
- Breathwalk LLC · disregarded
- Sikh Dharma Education International · exempt
- Lyf Foundation · exempt
- Sikh Dharma International · exempt
- 3ho Foundation International · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Mexico) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,349,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,240,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,349,522 in grants to KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,240,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KUNDALINI RESEARCH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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