California · Nonprofit
LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER
LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,939 to it, the largest being WAI LAN YOGA TRUST ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Lotus Garden Meditation Center does
Mission
Lotus Garden Meditation Center was formed exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to contribute to the welfare of all by teaching the principles of and propagating the practice of the ancient science of Yoga Meditation at little or no cost to the public. Located in Carmichael, California, Lotus Garden Meditation Center offers classes, seminars, and retreats in its own facilities, community centers, hospitals, prisons, cancer centers, drug rehabilitation and crisis centers, and in the facilities of other nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses; providing instruction in healthy vegetarian dietary practices, organic gardening, yoga, meditation, and good health through exercise and preventative maintenance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Offered 9 Meditation, 1 Chi Gong, 1 Tai Chi and 13 Hatha Yoga classes per week in 2025. 1-2 Workshops per month on Yoga, Healthy Lifestyle, Cooking Class, Stress Reduction, Deep Breathing, Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, Sound Bath and/or Kirtan. Average number of people served per week in 2025 was approximately 243.
$107,629 spent64% of program spendingIn 2025, we offered a "help for Heroes" program (free yoga classes for 3 months), supported multiple Yoga Teacher Trainings, offered bring a friend for free days at the yoga studio, participated in the Franchise Tax Board Health Fair, shared meditation at long-term living senior facilities, offered relaxing sound bath events, offered plant-based cooking classes, hosted free public Kirtan & Bhakti Yoga Events and retreats, hosted a Waldorf 6th grade field trip day, supported the "Midtown Association Fresh Air Freemont" program with meditation classes and Kirtan, and meditation for the Wounded Warriors in Sacramento.
$61,228 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $168,857.
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 2022 to 2023, from $43k to $71k (+66%).
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.
25% of LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $181.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER’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
LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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 LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 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
LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER
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 LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER: 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 LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER?
- LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,939 to it, the largest being WAI LAN YOGA TRUST ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,939 in grants to LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER?
- WAI LAN YOGA TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOTUS GARDEN MEDITATION CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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