Higher Taste
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911474712
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Cornelius, Oregon, United States
- Phone
- (503) 230-7944
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,958
- Expenses
- $1,837
- Assets
- $35,121
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynn Lund (President)
People named in this filing
- Lynn Lund (President)
- Douglas Brooks (Agent)
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. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate the public through literatures and other message bearing items the principles of non violence, animal protection, vegetarianism and spiritual knowledge through the Vedic teachings.
What it reported doing in 2024
Distribution of free Higher Taste books that educates the public about important ethical and spiritual considerations and following a vegetarian lifestyle towards a higher purpose in life through the teachings found in the Vedic literatures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 95%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.12; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.