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FEI TIAN COLLEGE

FEI TIAN COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,281,983 to it, the largest being THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC ($2,500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$38M
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Fei Tian College does

Mission

The mission of Fei Tian College is to provide students with a transformative educational experience that fosters artistic and academic excellence, an appreciation for the divinely-inspired classical traditions of east and west, and the knowledge and virtues that will allow them to contribute to a better world, all while being actively engaged in a vibrant faith-based community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fei Tian College's primary program service accomplishment is providing education in classical chinese dance and east-west music to the students enrolled in its program. The college also provides the students general education courses in the liberal arts and sciences. The expenses associated with the instruction provided include compensation relating to the educational function of the college, teaching materials and services. The college received approximately $5.3 million in donated professional services in the 2024 academic year.providing financial assistance to students is a high priority of the college. Student assistance is primarily scholarships, such as tuition waivers and scholarship stipends. Most of the student body received full scholarships in the 2024 academic year. The college received approximatley $2.8 million in donated use of facilities.during 2024, the college supported its mission of higher education and of nurturing in its students intellectual and moral virtues through program services. Such program services include support of student activities and programming and auxilary services, such as dormitories.

    $12,170,134 spentof which $9,019,454 as grants$11,542,718 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,170,134.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($5.7M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2019 Revenue 81 ($8.6M) Expenses 128 ($7.3M) Net assets 111 ($13M)2020 Revenue 81 ($8.6M) Expenses 143 ($8.1M) Net assets 115 ($13M)2021 Revenue 89 ($9.4M) Expenses 142 ($8.1M) Net assets 126 ($14M)2022 Revenue 162 ($17M) Expenses 158 ($9.0M) Net assets 197 ($23M)2023 Revenue 166 ($18M) Expenses 158 ($9.0M) Net assets 271 ($31M)2024 Revenue 127 ($13M) Expenses 207 ($12M) Net assets 276 ($32M)2025 Revenue 181 ($19M) Expenses 227 ($13M) Net assets 330 ($38M)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (227)Net assets (330)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 2022 to 2023, from $23M to $32M (+37%).

$12M
$13M
$14M
$16M
$23M
$32M
$32M
$38M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

30% of FEI TIAN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.9M
’18
$1.2M
’19
$442k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$8.1M
’22
$8.5M
’23
$1.6M
’24
$6.1M
’25
22
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.

Board chair

Sen Nieh

Chair of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed88881110910
Joined·+0+0+0+3+2+0+2
No longer listed·0000311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $389k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FEI TIAN COLLEGE’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

FEI TIAN COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 FEI TIAN COLLEGE.

47%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 40% · 2023 54% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of FEI TIAN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

97% of FEI TIAN COLLEGE's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

FEI TIAN COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like FEI TIAN COLLEGE

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dragon Springs Buddhist Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FEI TIAN COLLEGE?
FEI TIAN COLLEGE (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,281,983 to it, the largest being THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC ($2,500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FEI TIAN COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,281,983 in grants to FEI TIAN COLLEGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FEI TIAN COLLEGE?
THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FEI TIAN COLLEGE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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