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The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SRI LANKA AMERICA BUDDHA DHAMMA SOC | $30,000 |
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: 90% of grant dollars ($1.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($200k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($200k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 38% of The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 55%.
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 +1818% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSRI LANKA-AMERICA BUDDHA DHAMMA SOCIETY5× · 2017–2023 · $670k · revenue ×19 · 56% of their budget
- LBLANKARAMA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE2× · 2018–2020 · $39k · revenue +68%
- SBSARATHCHANDRA BUDDHIST CENTER INC2× · 2018–2019 · $26k
Funded once
- SRSRI RATANA INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST Cone grant, 2019 · $617k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $200k
- BBBANGLA-AMERICA BUDDHIST FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 16 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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