Bhakti Farms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872102106
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Pacific Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8317474252
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,836
- Expenses
- $39,482
- Assets
- $82,751
- Liabilities
- $37
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessica Jordan Champagne (President)
People named in this filing
- Jessica Jordan Champagne (President)
- Julie Bernstein (Treasurer)
- Susan O'Neill (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teach simple living and higher thinking by working with food and mindfulness. Share knowledge of peaceful living as taught in the Bhakti tradition.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted four kids camps, lasting seven hours each, three of them attended by 20 kids and one by 70 kids. We taught caring for cows and other animals, how to milk cows, and how to make cheese and ice cream. We also taught about local and organic food and how to prepare healthy, fresh food cooked from scratch.Hosted seven 8-hour work events, each attended by 18-25 people. In these events we taught about fire clearance, invasive species eradication, seasonal creek beds and steelhead trout maintenance, construction projects, and chopping firewood from fallen trees. We also taught meditation and making plant-based food.Hosted one large anniversary event lasting 8 hours and attended by 80 people of all ages. This cultural/educational event featured painting, cow care, and spirtual food, dance and song.Hosted fifteen cultural/educational events where participants learned about meditation, mindfulness and how to calm their anxiety. There were teachers providing spiritual wisdom. Local organic plant-based food was served to all. Four of these events were camp-overs where participants stayed the night and camped until the morning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -98.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.