Maine · Nonprofit
CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,750 to it, the largest being PEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche does
Mission
To celebrate the vidyadhara'a life; to expand the general knowledge and understanding of the life and teachings of chogyam trungpa rinpoche; to trace lis legacy and influences into the current era; and to foster a sense of community amoung people who share a common interest in his life and work. The activities of the chronicles of chogyam trungpa renpoche, a registered society in the province of nova scotia, canada ("chronicles canada"). The primary purpose of the applicant, which has the same name ("chronicles usa"), is to provide financial support for the activities of the chronicles canada and a means for trungpa reinpoche's students and followers in the united states to assist in this project. The board of directors of chronicles usa is not controlled by chronicles canada, and will exercise independent judgement in the application of the organization's funds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
First accomplishment - the chronicles site: publishes articles, interviews, reviews, first hand accounts (taken from our oral history library), selected audio and video lectures by trungpa rinpoche and others, and relevant news. This activity has been ongoing since it began in 2002. The chronicles is open to the public.
Second accomplishment - ocean online community: provides classes on the buddhist teachings and group medication sessions. The ocean was launched in 2014 abd services members only. Membership is free of charge. The ocean currently has 1,300 active members.
Third accomplishment - oral history: the original motivation for the chronicles was to record and preserve first hand accounts from people who knew trungpa reinpoche. Much of the content in the chronicles is from the oral history library. However, most of the library itself has not been published, primarily because these inteviews were not conducted for a public audience. They are, in many cases, deeply personal. Their value is conducting academic research, but significant passages are routinely published in the chronicles.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $59k to $25k (−57%).
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.
100% of CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE’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
CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 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
CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE's revenue fell 19% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE?
- CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,750 to it, the largest being PEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,750 in grants to CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE?
- PEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRONICLES OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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