Florida · Nonprofit
LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC
LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,705,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,560,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Lotus Endowment Fund Inc does
Mission
The lotus endowment fund, inc. Is a 501(c)(3) supporting foundation for the sundari foundation, inc. And its initiatives, including the lotus house women's shelter. The endowment fund was formed to secure the financial stability and long-term viability of the sundari foundation, so the lotus house will serve as a resource for women, children and youth in need for generations to come. Part iii, line 1 lotus endowment fund, inc. Owns the facilities located at 2040 nw 7th ave, miami, fl 33127 and 420 nw 35th street, miami, fl 33127 and leases such facilities to the sundari foundation, inc. Pursuant to a 50 year lease at an annual rent of 1 per year. For 2024, the annual rental value of such facilities was approximately 219,000. Lotus village ii, llc, a wholly owned subsidiary of lotus endowment fund, inc., owns the vacant land located at 219 nw 14th terrace, miami florida and leases such land to the sundari foundation, inc. There is no rent or value attributed to such leased land. It is p
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$1,620,505 spentof which $368,310 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,620,505.
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.
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 $69M to $102M (+48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $245k → $1.1M.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 87% · 2022 76% · 2023 24% — 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
44% of LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
64% of LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND 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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Lotus Village Development LLC · disregarded
- Lotus Village II LLC · disregarded
- The Sundari Foundation Inc · exempt
- Lotus Supporting Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND 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 LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC?
- LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,705,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,560,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $10,705,500 in grants to LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOTUS ENDOWMENT FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing