ISKCON Online
Legal name: Iskcon Online Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472660983
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- +1 860 255 4108
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,152
- Expenses
- $112,950
- Assets
- $5,201
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Greg Stein (Director)
- Tara Kubiak (Director)
- Stephen Raisz (Director)
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
ISKCON Online seeks to significantly expand and enhance the quality, scope and effectiveness of advancing the Krishna consciousness movement using the internet—transforming ISKCON’s online presence into a state-of-the-art tool for outreach and systematic spiritual education. Our Vision _“So go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. We can use everything — television, radio, movies, or whatever there may be — to tell about Krishna. “ – Srila Prabhupada_ ISKCON Online seeks to significantly expand and enhance the quality, scope and effectiveness of advancing the Krishna consciousness movement using the internet. Based on our core strategy of combining creativity and technology we aim to transform ISKCON’s presence and utilization of the Internet into a state-of-the-art tool for serving...
What it reported doing in 2024
Development of educational websites providing courses and information and other online services. Chantnow.com and ISKCONOnline.com - over 19,000 students so far enrolled
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -38.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.