Namaste Foundation

Analysis

Namaste Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Namaste Foundation reported income of $339k and spending of $425k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $278k to $339k (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Namaste Foundation sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Middle Township Ambulance Corps ($339k), Lima Rotary Foundation ($339k) and Coweta Pregnancy Services Inc ($339k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $88k. At year end it held assets of $362k against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $241k. It reported 1 employees.