Virginia · Nonprofit
LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC
LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,207 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($247,547). 4 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 FY2025
- $882k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $348k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Ligmincha International Inc does
Mission
Ligmincha Internationals mission is to share the teachings of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bon spiritual tradition with western audiences, and to work with Bon monasteries and authorized teachers to preserve the tradition for the future
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ligmincha provided seven in-person and eleven online teachings and retreats in the Bon tradition during the year 2025. Ligmincha also provided online and interactive courses about our spiritual tradition, and published one book on Bon.
$215,915 spent77% of program spendingEducational and Practice Materials: Ligmincha International provides through our bookstore translations of Tibetan texts as well as Tibetan ritual objects.
$31,119 spent11% of program spendingLigmincha International may make donations and grants to individuals and organizations working to support Bon and other charitable activities related to our mission. In 2025 we proveded funding to Triten Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal for a school for underprivileged children in Dolpo, Nepal run by a Bon lama, Geshe Nyima Ozer.
$33,543 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,577.
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.
Chief executive
Sue Davis-Dill
Executive director
Board chair
Rob Patzig
Presidentboard chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $162k → $131.
4 of 8 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 LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL 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
LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 63% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL 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. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
27% 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 LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC: 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 LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC?
- LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,207 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($247,547). 4 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 LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $348,207 in grants to LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC?
- Greater Horizons is the largest funder on record, with $247,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGMINCHA INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 8 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