· Private foundation
Yeshe Khorlo Foundation (In Care of Aragon Trust Company)
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GADEN PHODRAMG FOUNDATION OF THE DALAI LAMA | $4,500,000 |
| PALPUNG MUNISHASAN DHARMCHAKRA SANGH | $100,000 |
| THE TIBET CENTER INC | $70,000 |
| RIGHTS ACTION LAB INC | $50,000 |
| MAITRIPA COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| THE RATO DRATSANG FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE INC | $20,000 |
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: 41% of grant dollars ($3.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 59% that went abroad ($5.4M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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
Beyond the US: 59% of all-years giving ($5.4M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUEmory University2× · 2020–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +54%
- TTTHE TIBET CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +17% · 51% of their budget
- RARIGHTS ACTION LAB INC5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TDTHE DALAI LAMA TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
The Treasury of Lives is biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and Himalayan Region. The Treasury provides an accessible and well-researched biography of a wide range of figures, from Buddhist masters to artists and political…
Defending civil and human rights secured by law
Buddhist Meditation and Study
Religious culture and education, meditation and religions comparative study
The purpose is to protect and promote human rights of Tibetan people.
The nyingma institute was founded in 1972 by tibetan teacher and author tarthang tulku to present the teachings of the tibetan tradition to the west. (see schedule o for full statement)
To maximize the effectiveness of the worldwide tibet movement, which is dedicated to ending human rights violations in tibet, and to actively supporting the tibetan people's right under international law to determine their own political,…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gere Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yeshe Khorlo Foundation (In Care of Aragon Trust Company) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yeshe Khorlo Foundation (In Care of Aragon Trust Company). Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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