New York · Nonprofit
ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC
ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $480,000 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($480,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $480k
- Net assets
- $3k
What One Drop of Kindness Inc does
Mission
With that insight of compassion, Through carefully selected projects, the foundation seeks to bring specific material support and healing inspiration to distressed communities within the U.S. and other countries, focusing on direct aid, charitable giving and community outreach. Detailed information about successfully completed projects to date and current charitable ventures underway can be found under Impact. Empathetic Listening and Compassionate Training Our Empathetic Listening and Compassionate Training program provides one-on-one services such as mindfulness and meditation, and trauma-informed practice. The 'You Are Beautiful, I Am Beautiful' Project program has been developed in Upstate New York and involves music, role-playing therapies. We've supported selected Tibetan projects in northern Nepal since the Gorkha earthquake ravaged the area in April 2015.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Since its inception, the foundation has achieved several milestones in serving the Tibetan community, particularly in their resettlement in New York. We have provided essential support through donations of food and clothing, as well as programs designed to empower individuals and foster resilience. These include mindfulness training to help overcome challenges, one-on-one meditation sessions, and English tutoring for English as a New Language (ENL) students. Our services are primarily offered throughout Ulster County, especially in Kingston, New Paltz, Hurley, Accord, and Lake Katrine.
$18,320 spentof which $18,320 as grants66% of program spendingYou Are Beautiful, I Am Beautiful program began in 2006 in Dublin, Ireland when Yungchen Lhamo visited and performed at a local assisted living facility there serving elderly residents suffering from dementia and in need of long-term nursing care. Since then, the program has further developed in Upstate New York (where One Drop of Kindness is based) and included: musical performances by Yungchen, some featuring Natalie Merchant, and the use of simple Buddhist mantras, for the benefit of homeless, developmentally disabled and mentally ill residents in the area. This ongoing program has received prominent media attention from Newsweek Magazine and Voice of America, and has inspired a similar program that was recently started in Spain.
$5,230 spentof which $5,230 as grants19% of program spendingThe foundation's Empathetic Listening and Compassionate Training program brings one-on-one counseling services to some of the neediest individuals living in upstate New York. Led by board director Tenzin Shaydrup, One Drop of Kindness currently provides compassionate listening, mindfulness and meditation services to approximately 260 homeless, disabled and low-income people in the Kingston and Woodstock areas of New York. With support from Peter Buffett's NoVo Foundation, this program also offers such practical help as financial literacy counseling (e.g. budgeting, credit score recovery and debt relief) to those in need.
$4,130 spentof which $4,130 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,680.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $2k (+117%).
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 ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Yungchen Lhamo
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $150k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ONE DROP OF KINDNESS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ONE DROP OF KINDNESS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC?
- ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $480,000 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($480,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $480,000 in grants to ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $480,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE DROP OF KINDNESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), 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