California · Nonprofit
MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE
MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,600 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($63,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $394k
What Maitreya Buddhist Institute Maitreya Buddhist Institute does
Mission
Pomote buddhistm teach people how to meditate in order to attain enlight ment and life a happy life
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promote buddist teaching
$19,203 spent86% of program spendingPromote buddhist teaching
$3,077 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,280.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $343k to $388k (+13%).
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.
100% of MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jian Chu Shi
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE?
- MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $63,600 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($63,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $63,600 in grants to MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE MAITREYA BUDDHIST INSTITUTE 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.
Play a game about who funds Maitreya Buddhist Institute Maitreya Buddhist Institute →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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