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Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,948 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,218). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$883k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$80k
Net assets
$4.5M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center does

Mission

Teaching the discipline of Yoga, Vedanta and related subjects.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Yoga centers in Los Angeles and Grass Valley California providing courses to the general public related to the discipline of Yoga and Vedanta.

    $758,073 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $758,073.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 76 ($930k) Expenses 79 ($826k) Net assets 112 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 231 ($2.8M) Expenses 79 ($826k) Net assets 207 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 47 ($577k) Expenses 48 ($499k) Net assets 211 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 34 ($418k) Expenses 58 ($609k) Net assets 202 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 62 ($761k) Expenses 56 ($588k) Net assets 210 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 65 ($792k) Expenses 66 ($691k) Net assets 211 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 72 ($883k) Expenses 74 ($773k) Net assets 215 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (74)Net assets (215)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 2018 to 2019, from $3.6M to $6.3M (+75%).

$3.4M
$3.6M
$6.3M
$6.4M
$5.1M
$5.3M
$5.3M
$5.4M
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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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

25% of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
’17
$105k
’18
$2.0M
’19
$77k
’20
−$191k
’21
$173k
’22
$101k
’23
$109k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Swami Sitaramananda

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $16k → $9k.

5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Sivananda Yoga Vedanta 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

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% 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 Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center.

47%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center'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 $525 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Sivananda Yoga Vedanta 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sivananda Yoga Vedanta 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 Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center?
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,948 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,218). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $79,948 in grants to Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $37,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sivananda Yoga Vedanta 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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