· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- NMNORTH MAIN STREET FUNDone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 42 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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- Who funds BARRE CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MAIN STREET FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tan Teo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tan Teo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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