Lotus Garden Meditation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208224086
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9169448505
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,235
- Expenses
- $168,857
- Assets
- $38,613
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda Harvey (President)
People named in this filing
- Linda Harvey (President)
- Fredrick Sands (Secretary)
- Rama Logan (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lotus Garden Meditation Center was formed exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to contribute to the welfare of all by teaching the principles of and propagating the practice of the ancient science of Yoga Meditation at little or no cost to the public. Located in Carmichael, California, Lotus Garden Meditation Center offers classes, seminars, and retreats in its own facilities, community centers, hospitals, prisons, cancer centers, drug rehabilitation and crisis centers, and in the facilities of other nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses; providing instruction in healthy vegetarian dietary practices, organic gardening, yoga, meditation, and good health through exercise and preventative maintenance.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we offered a "help for Heroes" program (free yoga classes for 3 months), supported multiple Yoga Teacher Trainings, offered bring a friend for free days at the yoga studio, participated in the Franchise Tax Board Health Fair, shared meditation at long-term living senior facilities, offered relaxing sound bath events, offered plant-based cooking classes, hosted free public Kirtan & Bhakti Yoga Events and retreats, hosted a Waldorf 6th grade field trip day, supported the "Midtown Association Fresh Air Freemont" program with meditation classes and Kirtan, and meditation for the Wounded Warriors in Sacramento.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.