New Hampshire · Nonprofit
NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP
NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,354 to it, the largest being BESS Family Foundation ($185,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Granite United Wayshared funders
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio match
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 9% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $63k → $257k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP’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
NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
66% 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 NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 49% — 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 NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
66% of NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP'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 $283k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546k 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. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Granite United Wayshared fundersNH · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tan Teo Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khyentse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dana Sila Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yuelu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timely Rainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- K & W Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betsy Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crutshared fundersNH · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
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 NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP: 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 NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP?
- NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP (New Hampshire) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $828,354 to it, the largest being BESS Family Foundation ($185,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $828,354 in grants to NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP?
- BESS Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURAL DHARMA FELLOWSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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