· Public charity
Bluelight Heals Corporation
To empower individuals to help people understand themselves better to remove negative thinking patterns using spirituality techniques to be happier and healthier.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $912k
- $250k+6 grants · $9.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORGYEN TOBGYAL RINPOCHE (OTR) FOUNDATION | $3,727,980 |
| PADMASAMBHAVA BUDDHIST CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| ORGYEN TOBGYAL RINPOCHE (OTR) FOUNDATION | $1,415,000 |
| LIGHT OF BEROTSANA | $1,279,000 |
| TARA MANDALA | $1,000,000 |
| DRIKUNG KAGYU FOUNDATION USA | $277,244 |
| DRIKUNG KAGYU FOUNDATION USA | $202,000 |
| KUNZANG GATSHAL FOUNDATION | $165,000 |
| PADMASAMBHAVA BUDDHIST CENTER | $160,000 |
| KUNZANG GATSHAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TARA MANDALA | $100,000 |
| PADMASAMBHAVA BUDDHIST CENTER | $85,400 |
| TARA MANDALA | $50,000 |
| DRIKUNG KAGYU FOUNDATION USA | $25,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT WORKS | $12,248 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $6.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PRESERVING THE ANCIENT DRIKUNG KAGYU LINEAGE OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM, SPECIFICALLY BY BUILDING 100 MONKS' QUARTERS, TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND FOR DORMITORIES AT GAR MONASTERY (GARGON) IN NANGQIAN COUNTY, QINGHAI PROVINCE, TIBET, ALLOWING FOR THE MONASTERY TO CONTINUE EXPANDING AND THRIVING. · PRESERVING THE ANCIENT DRIKUNG KAGYU LINEAGE OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM, SPECIFICALLY BY BUILDING A TEMPLE AT HISTORIC GAR MONASTERY (GARGON) IN NANGQIAN COUNTY, QINGHAI PROVINCE, TIBET, ALLOWING FOR THE MONASTERY TO CONTINUE THRIVING.
Stated purpose: REBUILDING THE BUDDHIST COLLEGE AND PRESERVING THE LINEAGE MANKHA KYUNG DZONG TO MONKS · COMMISSIONING AND FINALIZING TIBETAN THANGKA PAINTINGS OF DZOGCHEN MASTERS AND SENDING TO TIBET FOR TRADITIONAL, RELIGIOUS USES · PRESERVING AN ANCIENT TRADITION OF TIBETAN MEDICINE, SOWA RIGPA, IN SIMIKOT, HUMLA, NEPAL, SPECIFICALLY BY FUNDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TIBETAN MEDICINE CLINIC WHERE THE TRADITIONAL AMCHI DOCTORS OF THE REGION CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE TRADITIONAL TIBETAN MEDICINE AVAILABLE TO THE POPULATION AND THUS HELP PRESERVE THIS ANCIENT HEALING LINEAGE.
Stated purpose: INFRASTRUCTURE/CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FIRST STUPA COMPLETED IN PERU AND THE CENTER OF THE DRIKUNG KAGYU ACTIVITY IN THE CUSCO REGION, LOCATED IN CHINCHEROS, PERU, SO THAT THE SPACE CAN SUPPORT GROUP EVENTS AND RETREATS IN FURTHERANCE OF DHARMA ACTIVITIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF THIS PRECIOUS LINEAGE · AGREEMENT FOR BLUELIGHT HEALS CORPORATION TO ASSIST WITH AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRIKUNG KAGYU CUSCO DHARMA CENTER, A BUDDHIST MEDITATION AND RETREAT CENTER, SPECIFICALLY BY PURCHASING PROPERTY IN CUSCO, PERU · PRODUCTION OF A CROSS-CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL PUBLIC EVENT, EL CAMINO DEL SOL, TO BE LED BY DRIKUNG KAGYU MONKS AND NUNS IN CUSCO, PERU, FROM JUNE-JULY OF 2025
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Bluelight Heals Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bluelight Heals Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluelight Heals Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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