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Vipassana Community Foundation

Support and grow the teaching and practice of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.5MHuman Services$145kEducation$62k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $127,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,057,830 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,930,830 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IVTA: $8k → 11%Northwest Vipassana Association: $100k → 12%Northwest Vipassana Association: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
MN
IL
MA
CA
CO
DE
GA
TX

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$832k · 61% · 4 grants

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.

South America$217k · 16% · 10 grants

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

East Asia and the Pacific$170k · 12% · 7 grants

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

South Asia$82k · 6% · 7 grants

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

Sub-Saharan Africa$24k · 2% · 4 grants

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

Middle East and North Africa$22k · 2% · 2 grants

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

Central America and the Caribbean$20k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: to rent a site in Guatemala to hold two 10-day courses and one 3-day course in 2024

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 10 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -85% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$1.6M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-85%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $788k · revenue +171% · 80% of their budget
  • IV
    Intermountain Vipassana Association
    2× · 2017–2021 · $344k · revenue +38%
  • P
    PARIYATTI
    2× · 2019–2020 · $123k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MV
    MID-ATLANTIC VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • IV
    INTERNATIONAL VIPASSANA TECHNOLOGY ASSOC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -85%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hawaii Vipassana Association

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.

Religion
2
Tu an Meditation Center
Religion
3
Greater Dc Vipassana Association Inc

Non-profit charitable religious purpose to teach vipassana meditation one of indias most ancient techniques of meditation which follows guidelines defined by the buddha

Education
4
Tuong Van Buddhist Temple Inc

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.

Religion
5
New York Vipassana Association Inc

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…

Religion
6
The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation
Philanthropy
7
Dharma Refuge Inc

Buddhist Meditation and Study

Religion
8
Maryland Buddhist Vihara

Spiritual practice,teachinng of Buddhism

Religion
9
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
10
Sunyata Meditation Association of Texas

This is religion organization. Budda temple.

Religion
11
North Shore Meditation and Dharma Center

Religious education

Religion
12
Central Texas Vipassana Association Inc

The primary purpose of the corporation is to promote educational and religious activity as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including, but not limited to the advancement of education, religion and non-sectarian…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Association of Southern California; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $788,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC+2 more: $36,000 · OtherIntermountain Vipassana Association: $343,929 · ReligionIntermountain Vipassana AssociationPARIYATTI: $122,850 · ReligionPARIYATTISAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $90,000 · ReligionSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUT…MINNESOTA VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · ReligionMINNESOTA VIPASSANA ASSOCIATIONBAY AREA VIPASSANA CENTER: $50,600 · ReligionBAY AREA VIPASSANA CENTERILLINOIS VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $34,768 · Religion+1 more: $9,400 · ReligionNorthwest Vipassana Association: $110,000 · Human ServicesNorthwest…SOUTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST…INTERNATIONAL VIPASSANA TECHNOLOGY ASSOC: $8,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATI…Northern California Vipassana Center: $52,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$824,000Religion$711,547Human Services$145,000Education$62,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $788,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetPARIYATTI: $122,850 over 2y, 22% of budgetNorthwest Vipassana Association: $110,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $90,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMINNESOTA VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetNorthern California Vipassana Center: $52,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBAY AREA VIPASSANA CENTER: $50,600 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetILLINOIS VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION: $34,768 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSAYAJI U BA KHIN VIPASSANA FOUNDATION: $9,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VIPASSANA TECHNOLOGY ASSOC: $8,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budget
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Instruments Fou…Behappy Living IncPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Behappy Living Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vipassana Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vipassana Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Vipassana Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vipassana Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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