Yoga Gives Back
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800412545
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3109919599
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $315,786
- Expenses
- $324,436
- Assets
- $66,084
- Liabilities
- $6,608
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kayoko Mitsumatsu (Executive Dir.): $85,071 total reported compensation
- Gail Hedding (Director): $8,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to mobilize the global yoga community to empower women and children in India to build sustainable livelihoods.
What it reported doing in 2024
Inspired by Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Dr. Muhammad Yunus' revolutionary micro financing breakthrough, Yoga Gives Back began supporting micro credit programs. Through the Grameen Foundation, we funded programs who lend small loans to women who are otherwise excluded from the conventional banking and financial systems.YGB developed "Sister Aid" programs to fund micro loans for poor mothers and education funds for orphans and young girls. YGB has selected and partnered thus far with successful Non Governmental Organizations, NISHTHA in West Bengal and Deenabandhu in Karnataka.YGB created "SHE" (Scholarship for Higher Education) to support destitute high school students to achieve higher education. Selected by YGB's partner NGOs in India, these students, despite of their financial background, are eager and have a
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $251K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.