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Vipassana Community Foundation
Support and grow the teaching and practice of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $127,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,057,830 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,930,830 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Association of Southern California | $90,000 |
| Southwest Vipassana Association Inc | $20,000 |
| Southeast Vipassana Association | $10,000 |
| Southwest Vipassana Association Inc | $7,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–23, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.4M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: to support the purchase of three properties to expand the center to accommodate 84 students, 21 volunteers and 3 ATs · to support phase 1a of development and ongoing construction of the center · the funds will be used to pay for the costs of the three buildings which are presently being erected for Dhamma Mudita, one kitchen-dining building and two student accommodation buildings. Presently all the interior facilities are being installed (sanitary facilities, interior walls, floors, tiles etc.) and respective bills are expected soon.
Stated purpose: to support the upgrade and optimization of the center's electrical system · to complete the AT residence · to complete a dorm for 12 students on the men's side of the center
Stated purpose: for the construction of the new Dhamma Hall · for the construction of the new Dhamma Hall and volunteers dormitory · to support the construction of the pagoda and the office
Stated purpose: to support the expansion of the center to accommodate 100 students · to fill the land in the new property north of the existing center in preparation for construction · to build a boundary wall
Stated purpose: to fund a 3-day and a 10-day Vipassana course in Bilene, Mozambique in July 2024, as well as two children's courses in Maputo in August 2024 · To pay the rent and part of the expenses for a 3-day course followed by a 10-day Vipassana course in Bilene, Mozambique in February 2025. · to support the fourth course in Uganda
Stated purpose: to rent a venue to hold two 10-day Vipassana courses in August 2024 · to rent a site in Tunisia to hold a 10-day and a 3-day course in early 2024
Stated purpose: to rent a site in Guatemala to hold two 10-day courses and one 3-day course in 2024
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -85% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $788k · revenue +171% · 80% of their budget
- IVIntermountain Vipassana Association2× · 2017–2021 · $344k · revenue +38%
- PPARIYATTI2× · 2019–2020 · $123k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MVMID-ATLANTIC VIPASSANA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $16k
- IVINTERNATIONAL VIPASSANA TECHNOLOGY ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -85%
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.
The promotion of the teaching and practice of Vipassana (insight) meditation according to the tradition of Theravada Buddhism as taught by Sayagi U Ba Khin and S.N. Goenka.
Non-profit charitable religious purpose to teach vipassana meditation one of indias most ancient techniques of meditation which follows guidelines defined by the buddha
1.Practice Buddhist religion, the Vipassna meditation, it is a way of life in the purifying of mind and body. To provide a sanctuary for all monks near and far to stay and study Buddhism.
New York Vipassana Association Inc. is a nonprofit organization that sponsors periodic free public events and local residential courses in Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagi U Ba Khin as taught by S. N. Goenka and his…
Buddhist Meditation and Study
Spiritual practice,teachinng of Buddhism
The mahamevnawa is a group of monasteries established for spiritual development through the teachings of the sakyamuni buddha (600bc). our wish is to help you purify your mind and reach the ultimate goal of realization of nirvana, the true…
This is religion organization. Budda temple.
Religious education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Association of Southern California and the most unlike its peers is International Vipassana Technology Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Vipassana Association ↗
- Who funds PARIYATTI ↗
- Who funds Northwest Vipassana Association ↗
- Who funds SAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Northern California Vipassana Center ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA VIPASSANA CENTER ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VIPASSANA TECHNOLOGY ASSOC ↗
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.
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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 Vipassana Community 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.
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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