The Ishaya Foundation
Overview
Mission
Healing of the world through healing of the self.
What it reported doing in 2024
Produced and facilitated workshops and seminars teaching the ishaya tradition of the healing of the world through the healing of the self.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264677588
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- St James, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5732619951
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,280
- Expenses
- $129,034
- Assets
- $288,021
- Liabilities
- $297,001
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.1%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.1% of revenue deployed · 26.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- MAHADEVA ISHAYA (EXITING PRES)
- JYOTI ISHAYA (Director)
- KALIMA ISHAYA (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.