· Private foundation
Tan Teo Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $229,186 |
| CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC | $205,000 |
| PLUM VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED BUDDHISM INC | $170,000 |
| PEACEJAM FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| UGANDA BUDDHIST CENTRE LIMITED | $125,000 |
| THE BHUTAN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC | $88,400 |
| SUTTACENTRAL DEVELOPMENT TRUST | $50,000 |
| NAROPA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SRAVASTI ABBEY CORP | $33,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| WCCM-USA LTD CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| BARRE CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES INC | $15,000 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($5.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
- TBThe Bhutan Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $703k · revenue +59%
- CFCENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC7× · 2019–2025 · $687k · revenue +44%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- KUKAIST US FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $260k · revenue -8% · 71% of their budget
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%- TATURNOUT ACTIVISM INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Our mission is to preserve and share the profound and uncommon teachings of the supreme buddha, which have been a beacon of wisdom and psychological science since the era of buddha sakyamuni, 2,500 years ago.
Our purpose is to support the inner pathway of all who come to us. By inner pathway, we refer to the innate qualities of the human spirit: love, joy, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, inner peace, beauty, and humor. The inner pathway is…
Buddhist religion and teachings observation.
To promote the tibetan buddhism through the practice of nyingma lineage teachings and to help practioners recognize the essence of mind.
The primary mission of Mahamati Foundation is to promote the activities and teachings of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism under the ultimate direction of the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje, through the specific activities of Karma…
As the north american seat of drepung gomang monastery, we offer the region an opportunity to study and practice tibetan buddhism through transformative guided retreats, classes, and teachings; we actively promote awareness of the…
To promote the practice of buddhist meditation and related religious practice though instruction, lectures, publications, and other outreach. found and administer a buddhist monastery and retreat center as a center for these activities.
Religious service
In a natural spiritual setting, the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing provides a wide range of practices drawn from ancient wisdom, for all levels of interest, in order to cultivate physical and emotional wellbeing in the greatest number of…
Wisdom & Money offers retreats, trainings, spiritual companioning, written reflections & workshops designed to encourage people of wealth and people from a culture of wealth to engage with money as a doorway to spiritual transformation at…
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 Land of Medicine Buddha Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wccm - Usa Ltd Corporation Attn Gene Bebeau. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 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) — 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 42 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 PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds KAIST US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WCCM - USA Ltd Corporation Attn Gene Bebeau ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shaolin Temple USA ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BARRE CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds DHAMMADHARINI ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MAIN STREET FUND ↗
- Who funds MACHIK CORP ↗
- Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds LAND OF MEDICINE BUDDHA INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDATO SI CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds TERGAR INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 · Impactassetsinc · BESS Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Lostand Foundation · The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Tan Teo Charitable 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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