Donations

We deeply appreciate and welcome your support of the Encinitas Temple. Your gift enables us to fund the vital services and activities that we offer to our members and larger community, and to maintain our sacred facilities. We thank you for your continuing support.

Please choose from the following three funds where you would most like to have impact today:

Temple General Operating Fund

Your gift will help us to meet the day-to-day and highest priority general operating needs of the Encinitas Temple.

Temple Building Fund

Your gift will help support the care of our Encinitas Temple property, including costs associated with acquiring and maintaining the facilities, grounds, equipment, furniture, and vehicles, and those associated with related capital campaigns. Please click below to make your gift now:

Ashram Building Fund

You may also make gifts in support of the Encinitas Ashram Building Fund. Your gifts will help support the care of our Encinitas Ashram property, including costs associated with acquiring and maintaining the facilities, including legacy structures, meditation gardens, grounds, equipment, furniture, and vehicles, as well as those associated with related capital campaigns. Please click below to make your gift now:

There are two additional ways to make donations.

1. By Check

Please make your check payable to Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) and write the name Encinitas Temple General Operating Fund, Encinitas Temple Building Fund, or Encinitas Ashram Building Fund on the memo line of the check.

Please send your check to:

Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Temple
939 Second Street
Encinitas, CA 92024
Telephone: (760) 436-7220

2. By Credit Card (Phone)

Call the SRF Mother Center at 818-549-5151 and indicate that your donation is for the “Encinitas Temple General Operating Fund,” or the “Encinitas Temple Building Fund,” or “Encinitas Ashram Building Fund.”

Recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, Self-Realization Fellowship is a public charity under federal law and a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation under the Revenue Taxation Code of the State of California. Accordingly, contributions to Self-Realization Fellowship are deductible to the maximum extent permitted by law for income tax purposes.

Donations can be made through outright gifts in the form of cash, check, credit card, appreciated securities, real or personal property, and other types of assets, and deferred gifts in the form of charitable trusts. Bequests eligible for a charitable estate tax deduction can be made by naming the organization as a beneficiary in, among other things, a will, a trust, an insurance policy, or retirement funds.