California · Nonprofit
Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple
Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,880 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,970). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple does
Mission
Religious Organization - Buddhist Temple Mission: Strive to achieve the goal of propagating Dharma and fulfill the monastic mission of taking up the career of benefiting all sentient
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Articles and events calendar, notices, videos preaching Buddhism are also posted online in www.fayin.us . Members wrote articles of current interest pertaining to religious news and cultivation. Articles published in website to further the interest of Buddhism worshipping. Buddhism article online have 8242 online views.
$227,292 spent37% of program spendingTotal fifty-eight Sunday service and special events performed and have approximate 10,500 attendance. Teach and cultivate people having more consideration for all beings and doing more for all beings. Buddhist lectures performed online have twelve thousand attendance. The Temple maintain a library of Buddhism and open to public but temporary closed most of the time due to COVID-19 and local government health regulation order. The library has 7058 members. It is re-open on October 2024.
$296,402 spent$404,156 earned by the program48% of program spendingHosted 10 events for food drive and provide food to benefit more than Seven thousand people. Grant to three other Buddhism organization to enlighten Buddhism in mercy, compassion, kindness and love in the society.
$63,673 spent10% of program spendingProvide space and coordinated with Wealth by Health, an tax-exempt organization, orginize medical outreach events that offer free access to quality medical, dental, and alternative care services, aiding thousands of patients who face barrier to health care (Six times free mobile vision clinic, four times free health care clinic and fifteen free vaccination events).
$27,871 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $615,238.
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.
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 $16M to $17M (+9%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $27k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple’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
Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
87% 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 Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
66% of Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple: 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 Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple?
- Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,880 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,970). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $92,880 in grants to Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Buddhist Ortho-Creed Association Dharma Seal Temple 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 3 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