How much does Tibet Fund Inc give?

Tibet Fund Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $600,705, out of $12,187,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Tibet Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), International (23%), Religion (10%).

Who are Tibet Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tibetan Community Development Fund Inc ($750k), New York University ($258k), Indiana University School of Medicine ($231k).

Does Tibet Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tibet Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

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New York · Public charity

Tibet Fund Inc

Founded in 1981 under the patronage of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Tibet Fund is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding Tibet's cultural heritage and strengthening Tibetan communities, both in exile and inside Tibet.

$12M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 22
Itemized grants FY2024: 19
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $601k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $23,729
Largest grant, FY2024: $56,883
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 19; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Tibet Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	22	$601k	45%
FY2023	19	$469k	16%
FY2022	16	$1.1M	31%
FY2021	15	$413k	27%
FY2020	11	$209k	18%
FY2019	11	$358k	91%
FY2018	3	$34k	67%
FY2017	2	$10k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MInternational$750kReligion$317kCommunity Improvement$122kArts & Culture$55kScience & Tech$40kHealth$15kRecreation & Sports$11k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tibetan Community Development Fund Inc	$750,000	1	95%
New York University	$258,082	5	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$230,648	6	n/a
Plateaux LLC	$199,560	5	n/a
State University of New York College at Purchase	$161,192	6	n/a
The George Washington University	$134,000	5	0%
University of Northern Iowa	$121,633	4	n/a
Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies	$111,200	3	n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology	$105,451	4	n/a
De Shema Inc	$103,950	6	95%

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All grantees of Tibet Fund Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tibetan Community Development Fund Inc	$750,000	1	95%
New York University	$258,082	5	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$230,648	6	n/a
Plateaux LLC	$199,560	5	n/a
State University of New York College at Purchase	$161,192	6	n/a
The George Washington University	$134,000	5	0%
University of Northern Iowa	$121,633	4	n/a
Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies	$111,200	3	n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology	$105,451	4	n/a
De Shema Inc	$103,950	6	95%
Rutgers the State University	$95,550	6	n/a
The Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey Inc	$92,000	4	3%
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	$91,687	5	n/a
University of Delaware	$83,172	2	n/a
University of the Incarnate Word	$67,897	2	0%
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc	$56,494	5	0%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$54,559	4	n/a
Orbitz	$51,174	2	n/a
The office of Tibet	$47,205	1	n/a
Wild Neko Pictures Inc	$46,766	1	n/a
International House	$38,582	2	0%
Kansas State University	$38,468	2	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$34,995	2	n/a
Northeastern University	$34,313	2	0%
Northwestern University	$34,237	1	0%
The Garrison Institute	$25,200	1	1%
Rochester Institute of Technology	$23,661	1	0%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$23,155	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$23,076	1	n/a
Nabu Global Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Teachers College Columbia University	$13,557	1	0%
Tibetan Youth Association Inc	$13,300	1	8%
Himalayan Elders Project Inc	$12,000	1	n/a
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$11,219	1	0%
Tibetan Nurses Association of New York and New Jersey Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
University of Denver	$5,823	1	0%
The Omprakash Foundationthe Omprakash Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Tibet Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO2.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Tibet Fund Inc

How much does Tibet Fund Inc give?: Tibet Fund Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $600,705, out of $12,187,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tibet Fund Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), International (23%), Religion (10%).
Who are Tibet Fund Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tibetan Community Development Fund Inc ($750k), New York University ($258k), Indiana University School of Medicine ($231k).
Does Tibet Fund Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tibet Fund Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Tibet Fund Inc based?: Tibet Fund Inc is based in NY.