California · Nonprofit
PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION
PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,244 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($195,200). 3 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
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $238k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Path Nirvana Foundation does
Mission
Fund Various projects of Charitable Nature
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Contribute funds for the constructing a Meditation Hall at Teaching Institute (IIT) in Anamaduwa, Sri Lanka. Estimating about 80 monastics will graduate yearly from this institute. Will benefit many monastics providing a quiet and peaceful environment to meditate.
$50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants61% of program spendingContribute funds for providing meal requisites to Monastics residing at Teaching Institute (IIT) in Anamaduwa, Sri Lanka. Estimating about 80 monastics will graduate yearly from this institute.
$8,535 spentof which $15,636 as grants10% of program spendingContribute funds for the constructing Bodhi Tree Compound at Teaching Institute (IIT) in Anamaduwa, Sri Lanka. Estimating about 80 monastics will graduate yearly from this institute. Will benefit many monastics providing a quiet and peaceful environment to meditate.
$10,600 spentof which $10,600 as grants13% of program spendingProvide funds for an event to chant the buddhist scriptures
$5,546 spentof which $5,546 as grants7% of program spendingProvide funds for donations of medicines and food to the flood victims in Sri Lanka
$2,390 spentof which $2,690 as grants3% of program spendingProvide funds for donations of medicines and food to the earthquake victims in Myanmar
$1,651 spentof which $1,651 as grants2% of program spendingProvide funds to cover medical expenses of a Buddhist Monk
$1,200 spentof which $1,200 as grants1% of program spendingContribute funds for temple construction in Lumbini, Nepal
$800 spentof which $800 as grants1% of program spendingContribute funds to purchase computers for a school in Sri Lanka
$670 spentof which $670 as grants1% of program spendingFunds to cover the subscription cost of IT servers hosting the buddhist texts online
$289 spentof which $289 as grants0% of program spendingProvide funds for purchasing Tablets containing Buddhist texts and translations. Donate these Tablets to the forest dwelling monks
$92 spentof which $92 as grants0% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,773.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $6k to $10k (+73%).
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 PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lal Senanayake
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $58k.
4 of 4 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 PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION’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
PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 86% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION'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. $238k 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
PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION
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.
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION: 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 PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION?
- PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,244 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($195,200). 3 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 PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $238,244 in grants to PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $195,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATH NIRVANA FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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