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VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON

VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,846 to it, the largest being VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$239k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$152k
Net assets
$302k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Vedanta Institute Houston does

Mission

Education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Lectures for guests at prominent wellness resorts in india ,the maldives & london; supporting colombo and pune centers by talks & promotional work; esccorting students to meet vedanta academy founde, swami parthasarathy; private groups and corporate teams.

    $102,555 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Weekly study classes in houston, six times per week/ approximately 100 people received in depth instruction about living based on vendanta philosophy and on zoom for global audience

  3. Regular one-on-one sessions per week for class members, and others requesting private guidance - free of charge, quarterly vedanta talks at local houston high schools, lectures & lecture series at various houston locations

  4. Bi monthly recordings & release of "yoga for your intellect" podcast, promotion of swami pathasarathy's annual "guru purnima" lecture, live from india, promotion of youth camps & other retreats at vedanta academy, india & promotion of & on-site work for sundadaji's five day bhagavad gita lecture series in mumbai

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,555.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2019 Revenue 19 ($32k) Expenses 30 ($43k) Net assets 50 ($12k)2020 Revenue 69 ($116k) Expenses 63 ($91k) Net assets 164 ($38k)2021 Revenue 92 ($153k) Expenses 22 ($32k) Net assets 697 ($159k)2022 Revenue 108 ($180k) Expenses 98 ($141k) Net assets 864 ($197k)2023 Revenue 56 ($94k) Expenses 85 ($122k) Net assets 741 ($169k)2024 Revenue 100 ($167k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 842 ($192k)2025 Revenue 143 ($239k) Expenses 90 ($130k) Net assets 1321 ($302k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (90)Net assets (1321)Peer revenue range

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 $38k to $159k (+324%).

$23k
$13k
$38k
$159k
$197k
$169k
$192k
$302k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’18
−$11k
’19
$25k
’20
$122k
’21
$38k
’22
−$28k
’23
$23k
’24
$109k
’25
22
months of
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.

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Listed44333444
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0110000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $32k → $17k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 INSTITUTE HOUSTON’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 INSTITUTE HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

97% 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 INSTITUTE HOUSTON.

33%
largest funder
88%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 INSTITUTE HOUSTON?
VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,846 to it, the largest being VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $151,846 in grants to VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON?
VEDANTA CULTURAL FOUNDATION USA INC DBA VEDANTA USA is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VEDANTA INSTITUTE HOUSTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing