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VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO

VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,577 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($208,330). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$474k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$408k
Net assets
$4.9M
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Vedic Cultural & Spiritual Center of San Diego does

Mission

To build a center dedicated to promote rich vedic tradition, culture and knoledge gained over thousands of years and recorded in many forms the center promotes youth activities through balabhavan and youth seva

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Utilized the shiva vishnu temple for spirutual and religious activities, as well as performed individual pooja requests

    $312,150 spent$375,500 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,150.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($532k) Expenses 100 ($344k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 93 ($493k) Expenses 101 ($348k) Net assets 108 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 94 ($499k) Expenses 95 ($325k) Net assets 118 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 65 ($348k) Expenses 101 ($347k) Net assets 120 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 219 ($1.2M) Expenses 98 ($338k) Net assets 266 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 144 ($765k) Expenses 110 ($379k) Net assets 284 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 116 ($616k) Expenses 175 ($604k) Net assets 280 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 89 ($474k) Expenses 103 ($356k) Net assets 281 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (103)Net assets (281)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 $2.1M to $4.6M (+121%).

$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$4.6M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$4.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$188k
’17
$145k
’18
$174k
’19
$924
’20
$828k
’21
$387k
’22
$12k
’23
$118k
’24
20
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1213151515141719
Joined·+6+3+0+2+1+8+5
No longer listed·5102253
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $46k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO’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

VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO.

51%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 65% · 2023 84% — 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.

Where its funders are

93% of VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.

NJ
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

0
board members
✓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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO?
VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,577 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($208,330). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $407,577 in grants to VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $208,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VEDIC CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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