North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE
THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,375 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What The Ayurvedic Institute does
Mission
The Ayurvedic Institute was established to teach and train people in traditional medicine and the healing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ayurvedic studies program (education): teach traditional healing medicine in a traditional manner. There are three certification levels: consultant, practioner, and doctor. Students are able to open their own practices upon completion of the various levels and practice ayurveda according to their certification. Programs were offered to approximately 1,000 people. In addition, the organization provided meals to 6,000 hurricane victims.
$892,299 spent$1,668,776 earned by the program63% of program spendingSales of educational materials (student shop): provide ayurvedic products from books to herbs, custom formulas and dry goods to our students and general public learning about and integrating ayurveda into their lives.
$435,000 spent$395,210 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe ayurvedic press (publishing department): publication for the education of the traditional healing art of ayurveda.
$100,000 spent$2,793 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,427,299.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $5.9M (+37%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Vasant Lad
President/chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE’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 AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
94% 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 AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 95% — 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
94% of THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.
Organizations like THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE: 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 AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE?
- THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,375 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,375 in grants to THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), 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