Skip to content
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants: funding profile →

California · Public charity

DDMBA LA Foundation

The Organization operates under the following philosophy and ultimate long term goals. Our Principle Uplift the character of all mankind, build a Pure Land on Earth. Our Spirit Offer ourselves for the benefit of all. Our Direction Embrace the original intention of Buddha, advance the purification of the world.

$133k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2017
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$43,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$146k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association$52,6962n/a
Arcadia Fire Department Foundation$50,0001n/a
Saint Marks School Altadena Inc$43,8001n/a

Compare DDMBA LA Foundation with peer funders

About DDMBA LA Foundation

How much does DDMBA LA Foundation give?
DDMBA LA Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $133,281 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does DDMBA LA Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (100%).
Who are DDMBA LA Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association ($53k), Arcadia Fire Department Foundation ($50k), Saint Marks School Altadena Inc ($44k).
Where is DDMBA LA Foundation based?
DDMBA LA Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on DDMBA LA’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home