Hansavedas Fellowship

What it reported doing in 2024

The nonprofit, self enquiry life fellowship (self) maintained the guidestar platinum seal of transparency in 2024. Additionally, for the twelfth year in a row self was awarded the honor of being a "top-rated" nonprofit organization by great nonprofits, the ratings and reviews website for us nonprofits. This award was granted due to exceptional reviews of self's program services by members of the public. Through its public fellowships, self directly serves the public. Many of these members of the public routinely receive services and participate in programs delivered by self, such as spiritual services with discourses, personal spiritual guidance, sacerdotal blessings, guided meditations and wisdom teachings through regular congregations and regular livestream broadcasts. A global community of aspirants participate in self's public fellowships, which include invited lectures, thematic discourses, workshops on mindfulness and breathing (pranayama), meditation retreats, healing prayer services or peace masses, initiations into himalayan meditation, and authentic vedic fire ceremonies (homa). These events constitute "special" fellowships. To this effect, self has hosted 642 public "special" events or fellowships through and including 2024 in communities across the nation and worldwide. This number does not include the "regular" fellowship services which are also open to the public. In northern California, where the nonprofit has its headquarters, "regular" fellowships and meditation services are led by his holiness swami vidyadhishananda. About half of the public events were offered free in 2024, thus allowing low- and moderate-income families to participate. In addition, the attendance has been steady at self's regular free full moon events, monthly livestream broadcasts and group meditation services. The monthly livestream broadcasts offer a worldwide audience the opportunity to learn the meaning of ancient sanskrit verses and aphorisms of spiritual philosophy, how to implement the teachings in daily life and live by the values of the scriptural tenets. In 2024, regular monthly livestream broadcasts and other special online events were attended by a large global audience. During these livestream broadcasts, our spiritual founder and head monk, his holiness swami vidyadhishananda reveals sanskrit scriptural wisdom. Dissemination of such wisdom is attainable only by the discourses from a great seer. The wisdom shared during these broadcasts supported participants in maintaining a reverential attitude with faith in god's love and protection.our 2024 annual family-friendly guru purnima full moon retreat was held in southern California and enabled devotees and their families to gather from around the world on this most auspicious occasion to honour our beloved spiritual lineages. At this retreat, children were taught spiritual values and about graduating with values. Besides the large in-person attendance, discourse and ceremonial sessions were broadcast live to facilitate wider participation from remote and international locations. Our 2024 annual meditation retreat was held online with our head monk guiding review sessions 7 weekends in a row with the meditators who were divided into 4 groups. This online meditation retreat was designed so that the meditators could use a daily planner of practices that could be integrated with their own daily work routine. This online university-level coursework was attended by initiates of four paths of the himalayan siddha meditation. This massive project digitally codified the oral transmission of lineage-based higher meditation curriculum by his holiness swami vidyadhishananda. Such profound teachings learnt directly from a realized himalayan meditation adept are rare and immensely uplifting and a testament to the potential for technology to serve humanity in positive ways. Self's congregation has continued to grow in several centres nationwide (plus centres in europe). In addition to gathering

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 60.7%; rating input score 61
• Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $56.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 30.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.65; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings