North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY
THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $336 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($336). 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 FY2025
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $336
- Net assets
- $227k
What The Center of Rational Spirituality does
Mission
Education - to help people in today's society awaken to their inherent spirituality and psychological health. This is accomplished by teaching proper meditation and integrating ancient spiritual wisdom with modern rational thought.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provided educational materials, instruction, guidance, and oversight for the following: remote courses and retreats. Visitors to the visitor center: approx. 12,000 visits to our websites averaged 800 per month visits to michael mamas' blog averaged 300 per month visits to meditation instruction page averaged 60 per month
$172,915 spent$145,824 earned by the program98% of program spendingDr. Mamas continued his weekly podcasts. Pandit prasad continued his daily, weekly,monthly and annual ceremonies on the same schedule as usual. Many visitors to the temple volunteered to help us in serveral ways. By april 2025, the newly constructed commercial kitchen was completed and operating. The maintenance crew kept up with the landscaping in all the areas, including the mile long stretch along the road from the main gate, past the temple to the ganga park entrance, maintaining all the parks: temple park, hanuman park, nandi park, ganga park, the temple and temple housing, commercial buildings, mount soma community student union and mount soma community visitor center, and cottages as well as the necessary maintenance to all buildings. Beautification of hanuman park has begun with a completely renovated walkway up to the site. This is the beginning of a planned large-scale renovation to hanuman park. As we have listed in prior years, there are a variety of events carried out by the temple which support cultural integrity and harmony, including the following events: mahashivaratri, toli ekadashi, guru purnima, shravan maas, krishna janmashtami, ganesh chaturthi, sharad…
$3,090 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,005.
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 2019 to 2020, from $316k to $252k (−20%).
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 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Dr Michael Mamas
CEO
Board chair
Mark Putnam
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $126 → $46.
1 of 1 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 CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY'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. $336 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY's revenue fell 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 2 related entities
- Crs Learning Center · exempt
- Sri Somesvara · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY: 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 CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY?
- THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $336 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($336). 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 THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $336 in grants to THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER OF RATIONAL SPIRITUALITY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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