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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,959,784
Total expenses
$5,610,033
Contributions and grants received
$3,588,194
Grants paid
$1,353,295
Program service revenue
$1,072,122
Investment income
$161,456
Other revenue
$138,012
Total assets, end of year
$2,676,473
Total liabilities, end of year
$376,959
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,299,514
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$5,188,642
Management and general expenses
$299,277
Fundraising expenses
$122,114
Program service expenses (Part III)
$5,188,642

Program services were 92.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $3,588,194

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $580,110

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE

    total $1,072,122 · related or exempt $1,072,122

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $75,522 · excluded $75,522

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $45,789 · excluded $45,789

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $2,438,929

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $2,352,995

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $85,934

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $85,934

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $0

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $26 · related or exempt $26

  • 11b · Other revenue: BOOK SALES

    total $92,197 · related or exempt $92,197

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $92,223

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $849,040 · program services $849,040

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $504,255 · program services $504,255

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $135,360 · program services $134,758 · management and general $602

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $54,846 · program services $54,602 · management and general $244

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $22,747 · program services $17,077 · management and general $5,670

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $2,500 · program services $2,500

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $18,000 · management and general $18,000

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $395,445 · program services $391,995 · management and general $3,450

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $908,923 · program services $855,635 · fundraising $53,288

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $270,663 · program services $73,456 · management and general $197,207

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $56,814 · program services $45,451 · management and general $11,363

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $10,923 · program services $3,031 · management and general $7,892

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $2,252,532 · program services $2,183,706 · fundraising $68,826

  • 20 · Interest

    total $3,908 · management and general $3,908

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $73,136 · program services $73,136

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $49,760 · management and general $49,760

  • 24a · Other expenses: AUTOMOBILE EXPENSE

    total $1,181 · management and general $1,181

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $438,220 · end of year $404,196

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $10,764 · end of year $83,795

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $70,688

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $24,456 · end of year $29,817

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,473,899

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $510,529

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,030,312 · end of year $963,370

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,661,476 · end of year $1,053,607

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $225,000 · end of year $50,000

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $6,194 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $21,000 · end of year $21,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $151,105 · end of year $196,286

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $3,650 · end of year $180,673

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $100,455 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,162,212 · end of year $2,299,514

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ENGAGE IN ALL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THAT DISSEMINATE AND SUPPORT THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF MAHARISHI VEDIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO FULLY DEVELOP LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, NATIONAL AND WORLD LEVEL, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CREATING WORLD PEACE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ENLIVEN THE VEDIC TRADITION OF KNOWLEDGE, THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, TO BRING LIFE IN TUNE WITH NATURAL LAW.

  • Advanced Maharishi Vedic Science course or AMVSC is a course that covers the 40 aspects of the Veda and Vedic Literature exploring how all the laws of nature together create the human reality and the universe, and how Veda and the Vedic literature in their structure and function embody and express this reality.

    Expenses $1,296,466

  • Activities that disseminate and support the understanding and application of Maharishi's Vedic Science and Technology.

    Expenses $3,892,176 · Grants $1,353,295

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • ELAINE POMFREY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $84,000
    From this org
    $84,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • YOUSSEF MOUNAYER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $36,000
    From this org
    $36,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • RICHARD BOYLAND

    CTO & director

    Total calculated
    $15,360
    From this org
    $15,360
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • HOWARD M CHANDLER

    TREASURER & DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • RAFAEL DAVID

    PRESIDENT & director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523219349312737

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