Yoga Alliance Registry

Analysis

Yoga Alliance Registry is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1992, 34 years ago. 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 December 2023, Yoga Alliance Registry reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.5m, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $761k to $1.2m (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 215% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Yoga Alliance Registry sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Global Give Back Circle ($1.2m), Iit Bhu Foundation Inc ($1.2m) and Lifes Kitchen Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $198k. At year end it held assets of $18.9m against liabilities of $6.7m, net assets of $12.1m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.