California · Nonprofit
SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP
SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,671 to it, the largest being MANI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($689,112). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Self Enquiry Life Fellowship does
Mission
Preservation and dissemination of precious streams of knowledge, specifically a.the spiritual heritage of the ancient vedic order with emphasis on the esoteric sciences of prayer, meditation and monasticism.b.the research of the sacred sanskrit scriptures, texts and manuscripts.c.the nonsectarian teachings of the authentic vedic tradition, including that of the mystical himalayan yoga lineages.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The nonprofit, Self Enquiry Life Fellowship (self) maintained the guidestar platinum seal of transparency in 2024. Additionally, for the twelfth year in a row self was awarded the honor of being a "top-rated" nonprofit organization by great nonprofits, the ratings and reviews website for us nonprofits. This award was granted due to exceptional reviews of self's program services by members of the public. Through its public fellowships, self directly serves the public. Many of these members of the public routinely receive services and participate in programs delivered by self, such as spiritual services with discourses, personal spiritual guidance, sacerdotal blessings, guided meditations and wisdom teachings through regular congregations and regular livestream broadcasts. A global community of aspirants participate in self's public fellowships, which include invited lectures, thematic discourses, workshops on mindfulness and breathing (pranayama), meditation retreats, healing prayer services or peace masses, initiations into himalayan meditation, and authentic vedic fire ceremonies (homa). These events constitute "special" fellowships. To this effect, self has hosted 642 public…
$800,531 spentof which $4,767 as grants$322,453 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $800,531.
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.
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 $3.2M to $4.0M (+27%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $27k → $154k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP’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
SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 57% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 59% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
70% of SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP
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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sukarman LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP: 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 SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP?
- SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,671 to it, the largest being MANI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($689,112). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,442,671 in grants to SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP?
- MANI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $689,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SELF ENQUIRY LIFE FELLOWSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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