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Khyentse Foundation
KHYENTSE FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of washington, usa, in november, 2001.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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
Which US states its 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
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 17% of Khyentse Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 6%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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)
Our aspiration is to offer tools and training to enable practitioners of all levels to practice authentically and confidently. Buddhist practitioners, both newer and long-term students, will find resources here to support their study,…
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…
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 53 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.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Khyentse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Khyentse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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