California · Nonprofit
BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,339 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Buddhist Global Relief a Nj Nonprofit Corporation does
Mission
To alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression through direct aid, economic and techinical assistance, education and other forms of charitable assistance to people in need throughout the world
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Buddhist global relief has made additional smaller grants to partner organizations in various countries worldwide for: (1) emergency relief for communities suffering from natural disasters, (2) programs to promote economic and social empowerment of women through access to vocational training and sustainable livelihoods, (3) assistance to organizations providing meals and nutritional education to the homeless and poor, (4) community farm development with instruction on sustainable and ecological farming methods to provide increased yields and self-empowerment, and (5) childrens education.
$1,431,380 spentof which $1,394,500 as grants81% of program spendingBuddhist global relief works with longtime partner world food program and feeding america to address food shortage in the us, afghanistan, ethopia, gaza, ukraine,and libya.
$252,969 spentof which $240,000 as grants14% of program spendingBuddhist global relief with longtime partner action against hunger to address the underlying causes of malnutrition among children in villages in mpwapwa district of the dodoma region of tanzania by increasing the production of nutrient-rich crops and the consumption of these foods to improve dietary diversification. Additionally, buddhist global relief also works with action against hunger to adress food shortage in sudan.
$76,950 spentof which $75,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,761,299.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.8M (+159%).
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.
94% of BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $210k → $770k.
13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 51% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
62% of BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
50% of BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION'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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429,339 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,429,339 in grants to BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION?
- TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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