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DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC

DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($8,005). 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 FY2024
$79k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$765k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Drikung Dharma Surya Inc does

Mission

Dedicated to provide teachings, including educational and training to help individuals gainin-depth understanding of buddhism. To provide regular meditation/yoga/mindfulness classes, prayers, ritual ceremonies, retreats, group spiritual practices, interfaith and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 11th annual usa drikung kagyu monlam - prayer festival for world peace, from 01/06/2024 to 06/02/2024 (during special saga dawa) with in-person and online zoom participation from monastics of rinpoches, khenpos, khenmos, drupons, lamas and anis with special online teachings bestowed by his eminence garchen rinpoche: commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of buddha shakyamuni as well as the parinirvana of lord jigten sumgon; practice and rejoice in the blessings of the lineage and enlightened beings, and reflect and inspire actions that are conducive for all beings to live in harmony; pray for the long lives and continued activities of his holiness the dalai lama and all of the holy gurus of all traditions and lineages; pray for world peace and welfare - stream of blessings, practice of the buddha shakyamuni; praise of the twelve deeds of the buddha; maitreyas aspiration; lama chopa of jigten sumgon lamp; feast offering; thirty-seven point maala offering; king of aspirations: the prayer for noble excellent conduct, dedication from the bodhisattvas way of life,solkha practice -torma offering to the dharma protectors.

    $19,147 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $22,338 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $22,337 spent
    35% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,822.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($737k)2018 Revenue 187 ($170k) Expenses 91 ($118k) Net assets 108 ($793k)2019 Revenue 142 ($130k) Expenses 81 ($105k) Net assets 111 ($818k)2020 Revenue 91 ($83k) Expenses 80 ($104k) Net assets 108 ($796k)2021 Revenue 51 ($47k) Expenses 48 ($62k) Net assets 106 ($781k)2022 Revenue 60 ($55k) Expenses 55 ($72k) Net assets 104 ($764k)2023 Revenue 97 ($88k) Expenses 67 ($87k) Net assets 104 ($765k)2024 Revenue 87 ($79k) Expenses 61 ($80k) Net assets 104 ($765k)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (61)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.0M (−6%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$979k
$970k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’17
$52k
’18
$24k
’19
−$21k
’20
−$16k
’21
−$17k
’22
$1k
’23
−$414
’24
18
months of
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.

2017201820192020202220232024
Listed8887366
Joined·+0+2+0·+3+0
No longer listed·021·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $17.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 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 DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC’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

DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

100% 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 DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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

100% of DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC'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. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC is better cushioned than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve18.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC?
DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,061 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($8,005). 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 DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,061 in grants to DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $8,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DRIKUNG DHARMA SURYA INC find more funders?
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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 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