California · Nonprofit
YOGANANDA SEVA INC
YOGANANDA SEVA INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $356k
What Yogananda Seva Inc does
Mission
Yogananda Seva, Inc. (Yogananda Seva) is a San Diego County-based nonprofit, formed in 2019. Yogananda Sevas mission is to engage and motivate the vast pool of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) members around the world in a variety of initiatives that support and/or complement SRFs and YSSs own activities. SRF is a religious organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda and recognized as exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal RevenueCode.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SRF SupportYogananda Seva supports several SRF departments and programs as follows:Several volunteer programs provide services to the worldwide SRF membership, as well as supporting SRF internal departments and work areas. These include an international help desk; various translation services; a youth services department; a volunteer portal; volunteer recruiting and support; a research team; a survey, testing, and focus group team; a team which provides support for SRF Centers, Temples, and Tours Departments; communications and outreach support; an elder forum for devotees aged 50+; a young adult sangha for devotees aged 18-39 who share aninterest in the teachings and meditation practices of Paramahansa Yogananda; and development of pilot programs that provide services to the worldwide SRF spiritual family.Yogananda Seva supports SRF in managing a website, enrollment process, and classes and programs for their Voluntary League of Disciples (VLD) program. The VLD provides an opportunity for devotees to take a pledge to structure their lives around the plan of spiritual life set forth by Paramahansa Yogananda, and to give freely of their time and resources to advance his spiritual…
$3,620,619 spent$3,772,222 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther Devotee Support ProgramsOther volunteer programs managed by YSO are designed to support Paramahansa Yoganandas spiritual family of devotees through a variety of means, such as the development of a lay disciple intentional communities forum as a resource website for those who are interested in living together in spiritual communities and development of a resource for travel connections between devotees in Paramahansa Yoganandas spiritual family.
$16,697 spent$39,136 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,637,316.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $198k to $863k (+336%).
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.
0% of YOGANANDA SEVA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Debby Mcrock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $471 → $2k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 YOGANANDA SEVA INC’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
YOGANANDA SEVA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 YOGANANDA SEVA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
94% of YOGANANDA SEVA INC'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 $350 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
YOGANANDA SEVA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOGANANDA SEVA INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOGANANDA SEVA INC?
- YOGANANDA SEVA INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,553 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5,203). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOGANANDA SEVA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,553 in grants to YOGANANDA SEVA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOGANANDA SEVA INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOGANANDA SEVA INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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