Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,031 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($8,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Lotus School of Liberal Arts does
Mission
The Lotus School of Liberal Arts is a holistic, mindfulness-centered independent high school. The mission is to cultivate a high school community of compassionate, mindful, lifelong learners who are able to meet life's challenges witht eh confidence and knowlege of how thier efforts can help create a better world for themselves and others.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $287k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $5.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS’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 LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
77% 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 LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
77% of THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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 LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS: 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 LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS?
- THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,031 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($8,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,031 in grants to THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS?
- CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOTUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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