California · Nonprofit
The Adi Da Foundation
The Adi Da Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,123 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($89,085). 2 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 FY2024
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $234k
What The Adi Da Foundation does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Adi Da Foundation enhanced its online presence through website upgrades for adidam.org and consciousnessitself.org. These enhancements included covering IT expenses such as software licenses web hosting and administration to ensure optimal functionality and user experience for visitors seeking information resources and engagement with the Foundations mission and teachings.
$7,485 spent30% of program spendingThe Adi Da Institute Division of the Adi Da Foundation - During 2024 the Adi Da Institute worked on a charter for the Adi Da Institute to define the divisions existence scope operational guidelines and what it is responsible for accomplishing.
$7,150 spent29% of program spendingDa Peace Division of the Adi Da Foundation - During 2024 the Da Peace Division of the Adi Da Foundation: Marketed by running Google Ads and sold printed and electronic copies of Adi Das books Not-Two Is Peace and Prior Unity around the world. Performed work translating the books Not-Two Is Peace and Prior Unity into other languages Spanish German Dutch French Italian etc.. Worked on an audiobook version of Not-Two Is Peace. Performed minor upgrades of the websites www.priorunity.org and www.nottwoispeace.org. Released an upgraded Spanish edition of the book Prior Unity.
$5,857 spent24% of program spendingDuring 2024 the Da Plastique Division of the Adi Da Foundation: Created and marketed the Da Plastique Image-Art calendar for 2025 Conducted advocacy and maketing of Adi Das art with curators collectors and critics in Los Angeles and New York. Researched new methods and technologies for fabricating one-of-a-kind monumental fabrications of Adi Das art that are more reliable higher quality and faster than the current approach. Worked on a concept model for the exhibition of Adi Das art in Europe.
$4,265 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,757.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $96k to $234k (+143%).
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.
100% of The Adi Da Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Michael Brown
Director chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $20k.
3 of 3 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 The Adi Da Foundation’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
The Adi Da Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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 The Adi Da Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of The Adi Da Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Adi Da Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Adi Da Foundation
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
57%
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 The Adi Da Foundation: 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 The Adi Da Foundation?
- The Adi Da Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,123 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($89,085). 2 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 The Adi Da Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $99,123 in grants to The Adi Da Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Adi Da Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $89,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Adi Da Foundation 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 2019–2024), 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