Colorado · Nonprofit
DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION
DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,563 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,864). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Dharma Ocean Foundation does
Mission
To study and practice the teachings of the "practicing lineage". To transmit to others the view and the step by step path to realization of the practicing lineage. To make whatever adjustments and adaptions, such as a greater emphasis on embodiment and direct experience, as may be necessary or order to render this lineage fully accesible in our present world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ongoing performance of educational programs which serve to provide instruction in meditation practices and dharma teachings as presented by chogyam trungpa rinpoche and somatic meditation practices of meditating with the body and other bodies of teaching as presendted by reginald a. Ray. Hosted various programs and events at retreat center and online for the purpose of providing ongoing opportunities to teach and practice the above-mentioned education.
$120,372 spent$95,330 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,372.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.6M to $5.3M (−20%).
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: 2022 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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 broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $12k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION’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
DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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.
Against its field
DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION's revenue fell 85% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION: 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 DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION?
- DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,563 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,864). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,563 in grants to DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $73,864 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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