Santa Fe Community Yoga Center
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
Points to look into
- It owes more than it owns.
- Raising each dollar of donations cost 194 cents.
These come from the organization's own tax return. There may be a good explanation; ask the charity.
What it says it does
The Santa Fe Community Yoga Center provides accessible, welcoming, and affordable yoga and community-building to our local community by providing inclusive classes, programs, and outreach.
- Income
- $357,829
- Spending
- $346,101
- Spent on programs
- 76%
- Reserves
- -2.6 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 93%
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 16
- Highest pay
- $53,896, executive director (ex-officio), employee
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 30 out of 100. Higher than 4% of charities in its peer group (human services, $250k to $1m).
Reserves
0 of 35Spendable reserves are negative: it owes or has committed more than it holds.
Debt
0 of 20It owes 217% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 3% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 53% on the year before.
Spending floor
0 of 1576% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 194 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Good: 78 out of 100. Higher than 59% of charities in its peer group (human services, $250k to $1m).
Independent board
25 of 256 of 7 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
0 of 8Reports no written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
6 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $148,299 spent. Low Cost Studio: Santa Fe Community Yoga provided community-based educational programming honoring various yoga traditions. Our low-cost studio served thousands of unique clients in 2025, a large percentage of whom took advantage of our by-donation classes, which have no payment minimums and thereby ensure that high-quality yoga instruction is available to all income levels. In 2025, the studio offered free classes twice per month for Santa Fe Public Schools teachers, faculty and staff. The studio continued to offer an online class for high-risk students unable to attend in-person classes for health reasons. In November 2025, Santa Fe Community Yoga began the Yoga for the Unhoused program, offering yoga classes for free.
- $45,062 spent. Yoga Teacher Training: program for certification for yoga teachers from which 15 people graduated.
- $39,575 spent. SFCYC's Yoga in Prisons program, offered free classes for incarcerated individuals. This is a peer-to-peer program in which inmates learned yoga and meditation, and in a 200-hour program were trained to teach fellow inmates. There were 8 total graduates and 8 in the cohort waiting to be trained.
- $29,594 spent. Santa Fe Community Yoga also offered the following programs: Yoga Retreats (Expenses $18,668; Revenues $22,006); Peace Between Youth yoga and meditation program sponsored by the City of Santa Fe (Expenses $9,621; Revenues $9,921); Yoga in Schools which consisted of free classes for middle and high school students and brought weekly classes to local schools (Expenses: $1,305; Revenues: $1,454).
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2006.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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