· Private foundation
Boon & Parami Buddhist Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lay Minister of Buddhist Religion | $2,000 |
| Northwest Meditation Center | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Wat Mongkolratanaram | $500 |
| Wat Thai Sri Soda Sun Valley | $500 |
| Wat Buddharangsri of Miami | $500 |
| Wat USA Buddhayaram Temple | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Wat Buddha Panya Society | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Wat Thai Washington DC | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep | $300 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 Boon & Parami Buddhist Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 29%.
How this is measured
2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 21 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boon & Parami Buddhist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boon & Parami Buddhist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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