Endowment is described in the American Heritage Dictionary as “Funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income.”
Translated into the charitable giving arena, this means individual donors can make gifts to their favorite charities with the request that the principal remain intact and only the income from it be used to support the charity’s ongoing programs.
And translated into very human terms, this means you as a donor can remain an important part of your favorite charity’s future. The gift made today keeps on giving because only the income – but not the principal supporting that income – is used.
Giving in Perpetuity
Our doors stay open, our programs keep running and our bills get paid because donors like you have committed yourselves to what we stand for. Through your current financial support, you make it possible for us to fulfill our charitable objectives now.
If what we do is important now, it will be no less so in the future. As a responsible charity, we have a modest reserve fund to meet financial emergencies. But so that our programs and services do not depend upon the ups and downs of the economy, we are offering you the opportunity to ensure the future of these programs and services through your gifts for endowment purposes.
That is the most satisfying part of making a gift to the Janaka Foundation Endowment Funds: Long after you are no longer physically present, you will still be part of our mission through your gift. Through your endowment gifts, you will continue to touch people’s lives, and you will be sharing Paramhansa Yogananda’s mission with many
truth-seeking souls far into the 21st Century.
Current Janaka Foundation Endowment Funds include:
General Endowment
This endowment allows funds to be directed to where ever they are most needed within Ananda’s work.
Ananda Sangha Worldwide ministries 
These ministries include Kriya Yoga, the Ananda.org website, Online Classes, the Ananda Virtual Community, Healing Prayers, Meditation supportfor individuals, Meditation Group support, Ananda Espanol, Clarity Magazine, Treasures Along the Path, Radio Ananda, and more.
Crystal Clarity Publishers 
Crystal Clarity publishes and promotes the writings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Nayaswami Kriyananda (both digital and in print) as well as those of other Ananda members. In addition, Crystal Clarity publishes audio books, as well as music and chant recordings
The Joyful Arts 
The Joyful Arts include music, drama, painting, sculpture, and many other expressions of the arts. The purpose of exploring the Joyful Arts, as written about in Nayaswami Kriyananda’s book, Art as a Hidden Message, is “to reach beyond the passing trends in art and see whether, in an overview, there may not be found a guideline to life’s true purpose and meaning.” The purpose of the Joyful Arts is to provide us with a direct experience of upliftment of consciousness and expansion of awareness.
Education for Life 
While many traditional forms of education address the spiritual needs of a child as an afterthought, if at all, at Education for Life schools the spiritual needs of the child come first. Not surprisingly, we find that when children’s inner growth is nurtured, they thrive at all levels – emotionally, physically, and intellectually. The Education for Life philosophy, with its emphasis on the child’s spiritual development and the use of intuition and understanding of the energy fields of the brain and heart, has the potential to be the leading alternative education philosophy of the twenty-first century.
Ananda World Brotherhood Communities 
Paramhansa Yogananda promoted the concept of World Brotherhood Communities during his lifetime. He talked with great enthusiasm about the ideal of “simple living and high thinking” – lived in intentional, spiritually-based communities where job, home and church could be all in one place. This, he said, would give people the support and the focus they need to deepen their spiritual lives.
Ananda has established five World Brotherhood Communities in the United States. These Ananda communities are comprised of churches, community living, businesses and schools and are based on Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings and the Path of Kriya Yoga. They have been founded through the guiding leadership of Nayaswami Kriyananda, a foremost direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda.
Ananda World Brotherhood communities in the United States are located in the following areas:
In California: Ananda Nevada County (Ananda Village), Ananda Palo Alto, and Ananda Sacramento.
In Oregon: Ananda Portland
In Washington state: Ananda Seattle.