New Jersey · Nonprofit
VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA
VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,764 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($662,483). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Vedanta Cultural Foundation USA Inc Dba Vedanta USA does
Mission
To provide and support education based on philosophical wisdom for the benefit of humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing and supporting lectures, seminars and discussion forums to the public by qualified teachers on a periodic and coninuing basis on the subject of philosophical wisdom and its role in enhancng the qulity of life and living.
$413,453 spent84% of program spendingProviding and supporting seminars to corporations, institutions, schools and universities on increasing productivity, reducing stress and instilling practical and higher values through philosphical wisdom.
$45,939 spent9% of program spendingDistribution of learning maerials through books, electronic and other media on philosophical wisdom.
$35,053 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $494,445.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $2.8M (+25%).
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.
83% of VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $15k → $184k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA’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
VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 74% · 2021 65% · 2022 52% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
56% of VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $941k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA?
- VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,764 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($662,483). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,081,764 in grants to VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $662,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 21 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