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RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA

RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,773 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($151,000). 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 FY2023
$59k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$288k
Net assets
$288k
1/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Carolina does

Mission

To Foster Community of Spiritual Aspirants

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Kali Puja Festival Celebrating The Victory of Good Over Evil

    $7,285 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. Year Round Programs & Services Including Periodic Visits and Discourses by Monks (Swamis)

    $10,276 spent
    41% of program spending
  3. Charitable Donations

    $2,260 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. Durga Puja Festival Celebrating the Victory of Good Over Evil

    $5,200 spent
    21% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,021.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($39k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($227k)2018 Revenue 86 ($33k) Expenses 74 ($25k) Net assets 104 ($235k)2019 Revenue 96 ($37k) Expenses 112 ($38k) Net assets 103 ($235k)2020 Revenue 139 ($54k) Expenses 129 ($44k) Net assets 108 ($244k)2021 Revenue 156 ($60k) Expenses 169 ($57k) Net assets 109 ($248k)2022 Revenue 127 ($49k) Expenses 88 ($30k) Net assets 117 ($267k)2023 Revenue 152 ($59k) Expenses 115 ($39k) Net assets 127 ($288k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (152)Expenses (115)Net assets (127)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 2022 to 2023, from $267k to $288k (+8%).

$227k
$235k
$235k
$244k
$248k
$267k
$288k
2017201820192020202120222023
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$8k
’18
−$774
’19
$10k
’20
$3k
’21
$19k
’22
$20k
’23

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Swami Atmajnananda

Chairman of Board Of Trustees

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $22 → $6k.

7 of 8 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 RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA.

52%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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

100% of RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,986 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,986 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA?
RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,773 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($151,000). 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 RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $287,773 in grants to RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $151,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing