New York · Nonprofit
DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY
DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,249 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($83,249). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $789k
What Dharmadatta Community does
Mission
A Buddhist organization providing spiritual retreats courses pastoral care and religious instruction in Spanish online and residentially.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dharmadattas largest program service area of our community in 2025 aims to provide religious services to our lay congregation primarily through online programming that is offered entirely free of charge. All our religious services are conducted entirely in Spanish with liturgical services group prayer meditation and religious instruction. We provide theological training religious instruction and prayer services via Instituto Budadharma institutobudadharma.org and our Online Meditation Hall at budismoenlinea.ning.com Salas de meditacion Dharmadatta. Instituto Budadharma served 500-700 students every trimester in 2025 who took facilitated not self-paced online courses ranging from six weeks to six months long. During 2025 1,381 congregants took our online courses. To support this we trained 13 new facilitators in 2025 bringing our team to 49 facilitators to allow us to grow in 2026. Instituto Budadharma also offers a rigorous seven-year religious study program with 500 members currently enrolled and nearly 100 graduates. In 2025 we graduated our third cohort to complete the full seven-year certification. Our online meditation halls serve a congregation of over 35,000 members. In…
$60,120 spent46% of program spendingAn important new accomplishment in this area is the creation of a project to develop a three-year program to train advanced students to guide meditation to support our ongoing programming and as a preliminary step in training of future pastoral teachers.
$41,978 spent32% of program spendingWe continued to offer residential monastic training to a Buddhist nun including over a month of intensive instruction in the Buddhist monastic code.
$27,721 spent21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,819.
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 2024 to 2025, from $543k to $789k (+45%).
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 DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY’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. 0 of the last 6 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $11k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY’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
DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 91% — 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
65% of DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY: 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 DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY?
- DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,249 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($83,249). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $151,249 in grants to DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $83,249 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DHARMADATTA COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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