Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA
CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,425 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,425). 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 FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha does
Mission
Chicago Ratna Shri Sangha (CRSS) was established to foster the growth of Buddhism in the West and to make the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism accessible to Midwest students. This is done by offering, in person and through Zoom, Buddhist religious instruction, teachings and meditation instruction from our resident teacher and qualified guest teachers, scheduled daily, weekly and special event meditation practice, meditation practice retreats and one-on-one instruction when requested. All events are open to anyone. Donations are suggested but not required.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foster the growth of Buddhism in the West and to make the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism accessible to Midwest students.
$202,112 spent$75,458 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $411k to $1.2M (+184%).
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.
74% of CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $141 → $332.
1 of 1 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 CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.
Against its field
CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA: 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 CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA?
- CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,425 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,425). 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 CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,425 in grants to CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO RATNA SHRI SANGHA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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