California · Nonprofit
Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society
Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,526,607 to it, the largest being EJEWEL FOUNDATION ($8,343,640). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,271 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,271 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern Californiashared funders
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio match
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
88% of Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society’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. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $47 → $1k.
6 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society’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
Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
100% of Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern Californiashared fundersCA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yuelu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khyentse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Universal Sunlight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BESS Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Icare Philanthropic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Charity Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tan Teo Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society?
- Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,526,607 to it, the largest being EJEWEL FOUNDATION ($8,343,640). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $9,526,607 in grants to Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society?
- EJEWEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,343,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing