Sivananda Yoga Farm
Legal name: Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953190863
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 530-272-9322
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $882,763
- Expenses
- $773,482
- Assets
- $5,436,738
- Liabilities
- $925,945
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Swami Sitaramananda (President & CEO)
- S SivasankarianandaA Anderson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Swami Sitaramananda (President & CEO)
- Sw AdiparashakianandaA Tarlu (Secretary)
- Sw Dharmananda-C Evans (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission at the Sivananda Yoga Farm is to spread peace, health and joy through yoga, welcoming people to learn yoga and Yogic philosophy for inner and outer peace and unity in diversity. at the Sivananda Yoga Farm is to spread peace, health and joy through yoga. All are welcome to come to our ashram to learn not only about how yoga can help maintain a healthy body but also how Yogic philosophy, applied in daily life, can help maintain a peaceful mind and spirit. The goal of yoga is inner and outer peace and the realization of unity in diversity. Swamis of the Yoga Farm. Vision To help all realize their highest potential and find inner peace. Inner peace will bring outer peace. Values.
What it reported doing in 2024
Yoga centers in Los Angeles and Grass Valley California providing courses to the general public related to the discipline of Yoga and Vedanta.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $56.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.03; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $758K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.