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- IRS nonprofit listing
- No issue
- Revocation
- Reinstated
- IRS files
- Agree
- Sanctions
- No match
- IRS bulletin
- No notice
- California
- Not current
- Charity type
- 509(a)(1)
$243krevenue
FY2025 · +84% in 3 yrs6 of 6years filed
’20’21’22’23’24’25
Revenue and spendingRevenueSpendingDeficit
Against similar nonprofits FY2025
Operating margin−15.6%
Months of reserve6.9mo
Revenue growth (annualized)+22.1%
Middle half of peersMedianLotus Institute
Where the money goes FY2025 · $280k spent
Programs$264k94%Management and general$16k6%990 FY2025 · Part IX line 25
Nothing to check in the filings
In its favor1
Growing faster than peers
Revenue up 22% a year since FY2020, in the top quarter of similar nonprofits.
990 Part I · peer cohort2funders
$21ka year, last 3 years
97%from its largest funder
Funder’21’22’23BESS Family FoundationEvery year since FY2021$10k$25k$25kThe Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American BuddhismOn and off$2k
Funded