· Private foundation
Mission West Foundation
STUDY AND PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOI TU THIEN PHO HIEN | $152,500 |
| ST JUDE MEDICAL CENTER | $6,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $6,000 |
| OPEN ARMS VIETNAM | $500 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 8% of Mission West Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHOI TU THIEN PHO HIEN2× · 2020–2024 · $170k
- CPCHUA PHO HIEN TEMPLE2× · 2020–2021 · $95k
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DLDREPUNG LOSELING INSTITUTE OF TEXASone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -53%
- BDBO DE MONASTERYgraduated2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +235%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Study and advancement of Buddhism religion
Provided medical training to healthcare provides in selected markets throughout the world.
Humanitarian aid for orphanages.
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…
Buddhist temple used for various religious services
Religious
Provide monetary support to disadvantage people in vietnam and other country
To promote Buddhist spiritual growth and cultural preservation through religious services, while providing global humanitarian aid, emergency disaster relief, and educational support to underserved communities.
To raise funds and assist the poor and needy in vietnam, especially those without financial means for medical cares.
Egypt Church and Pastors aid, Mongolia ministry helping students, US church and pastoral care and prayer ministry
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREPUNG LOSELING INSTITUTE OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BO DE MONASTERY ↗
- Who funds HOPETODAY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mission West Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mission West Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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