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BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND

BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,359 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$-60357
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$443k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Bon Shen Ling the Tibetan Bon Education Fund does

Mission

To provide education opportunities for tibetan bon and to preserve the bon culture

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization sponsored tibetan spiritual and cultural teachings

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($376k) Expenses 100 ($359k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 79 ($297k) Expenses 63 ($227k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 138 ($518k) Expenses 143 ($514k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 60 ($226k) Expenses 74 ($264k) Net assets 93 ($938k)2024 Revenue -16 ($-60357) Expenses 80 ($287k) Net assets 44 ($443k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (-16)Expenses (80)Net assets (44)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $443k (−64%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$443k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’20
$70k
’21
$4k
’22
−$38k
’23
−$347k
’24
19
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2020202120222023
Listed1111
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $48.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.

CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND is better cushioned than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin575% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve18.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND?
BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,359 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,359 in grants to BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND?
TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BON SHEN LING THE TIBETAN BON EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing