· Public charity
Ripa Ladrang Foundation
To support, advance, propagate and preserve the teaching, practice and study of the Tibetan Buddhist religion.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charity Water | $44,119 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $258k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $239k to organizations and $19k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Ripa Lineage Canada is an affiliated Canadian organization that embraces the same form and lineage of Tibetan Buddhism that is supported by Ripa Ladrang Foundation. Sponsorships there were made to support the formation and setup of their new temple and to facilite the teachings of lineage.
Stated purpose: Monk sponsorship (room and board, clothing, medical care and education for 120 resident Monks), Sponsorship for the Teachers (housing, food, clothing medical care, etc.), funds for sponsorship of children in need, sponsorship of religious ceremonies, construction of retreat houses, rectory for the teachers and continued construction and traditional decoration for the monastery (religious murals, statues, etc.)
Stated purpose: Text translation - Tibetan to English
How this is measured
1 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
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 Ripa Ladrang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ripa Ladrang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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