· Public charity
The Bhutan Foundation
To support the people of Bhutan to reach their full potential by developing local capacity and facilitating global support.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of The Bhutan Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts Institute of Technolo | $155,013 |
| Health Volunteers Overseas | $2,415 |
| Perkins School For the Blind | $1,079 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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
Grants abroad, by region: $2.2M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Partner Grant to Khedrup Foundation · Partner Grant to WPMCC · Partner Grant to Youth Development Fund
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 7 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bhutan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bhutan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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