Ananda College of Living Wisdom

Analysis

Ananda College of Living Wisdom is a registered charity in United States, based in Nevada City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2025. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Ananda College of Living Wisdom reported income of $83k and spending of $149k, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $33k to $83k (+156%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 251%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Ananda College of Living Wisdom sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 34th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian County Band Boosters ($83k), Suffolk County Boys Soccer Coaches Association Inc ($83k) and Lodi Public Library Foundation ($83k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 60% of the total. At year end it held assets of $17k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of -$3,463.