· Public charity
Khyentse Foundation
KHYENTSE FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of washington, usa, in november, 2001.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $1,657,610 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,719,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,062,059 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $784k
- $250k+1 grant · $699k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE WAY SCHOOL | $699,000 |
| BUDDHIST DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER (BDRC) | $220,928 |
| HEAD OF THE TIBETAN NYINGMA MEDITATION CENTER (SARNATH INTERNATIONAL NYINGM | $115,595 |
| RANGJUNG YESHE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $107,616 |
| MIDDLE WAY EDUCATION | $95,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $94,807 |
| LIGHT OF BUDDHADARMA FOUNDATION INTL | $50,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PROJECTS FINANCE (SPF) | $50,000 |
| NAROPA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $30,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KHYENTSE VISION PROJECT | $16,774 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY | $14,444 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $13,950 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $3.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: THAILAND - KHYENTSE FOUNDATION 9-14 NOV 2025 EDUCATION CONFERENCE 50% DEPOSIT · AUSTRALIA - GRANT TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DZONGSAR ZHONUI TEWA WEEKEND LEARNING CENTRE · THAILAND - FRAGILE PALM LEAVES FOUNDATION
Stated purpose: INDIA - 2024/25 DKCLI GRANT · INDIA - 2024/25 KANISHKA SCHOOL GRANT · INDIA - KUMARAJIVA PROJECT 2024-2025
Stated purpose: PORTUGAL - PADMAKARA TRANSLATION GROUP | PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE | BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL · HUNGARY - DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHIST STUDIES IN HUNGARY AND THE HUNGARIAN TRIPITAKA PROJECT · GERMANY - DOCTORAL SUPPORT PROGRAM AT THE KHYENTSE CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITIONS, YEAR 1 OF 4
Stated purpose: CANADA - AI BUDDHIST TRANSLATION PILOT PROJECT GRANT. · CANADA - HALF FEE FOR PLANNING KF EDUCATIONAL GATHERING AT TBD LOCATION/DATE · CANADA - GRANT TO SUPPORT DUDJOM GONG TER TRANSMISSION IN JULY
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Khyentse Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MWMiddle Way School7× · 2018–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +377% · 96% of their budget
- MWMIDDLE WAY EDUCATION7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue ×2,689 · 100% of their budget
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -12%
- 884000graduatedone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +26%
- RYRANGJUNG YESHE GOMDE CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $47k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study
1. Our website is continually updated with modern technology and provides tools to support Buddhist study and research. All of our sutra translations are freely accessible to anyone with an internet connection. 2. The Buddhist books for…
The nyingma institute was founded in 1972 by tibetan teacher and author tarthang tulku to present the teachings of the tibetan tradition to the west. (see schedule o for full statement)
To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.
Primary exempt purpose is 1) translation into English (and possibly other languages) of texts from Tibetan Buddhist traditions, 2) seminars, classes, and retreats on focal topics of Tibetan Buddhism and instruction in the literary and…
A postsecondary educational institution and residential retreat facility, with an approach to higher education that integrates academics, values, ethics, and philosophy, wtih experience, and draws from the wisdom traditions of the world.
To provide a "whole person" education in a context informed by buddhist wisdom and values, and to facilitate cultural understanding and appreciation between east and west.
To provide graduate level education in the full breadth of the buddhist tradition with specialized education supporting pure land and contemporary shin buddhist studies, while advancing jodo shinshu buddhist ministry and buddhist…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buddhist Digital Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Middle Way School ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE WAY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIAN CLASSICS INPUT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds 84000 ↗
- Who funds RANGJUNG YESHE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds KHMER-BUDDHIST EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROJECT (KEAP) ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds KHYENTSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN ART RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DHARMA GATES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DHARMAKAYA CENTER FOR WELLBEING INC ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds Lotus Treasure ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Khyentse Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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