California · Nonprofit
SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION
SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,600 to it, the largest being Vietnamese-American Buddhist Assoc ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inclocal
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio match
- The Yuelu 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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $9k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION’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
SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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
SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Bighorn Golf Club Charities InclocalCA · funds 149 organizations near you
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yuelu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Universal Sunlight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BESS Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Razzak Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khyentse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wadher Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vikalp Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION: 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 SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION?
- SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,600 to it, the largest being Vietnamese-American Buddhist Assoc ($8,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,600 in grants to SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION?
- Vietnamese-American Buddhist Assoc is the largest funder on record, with $8,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAKYAMUNI BUDDHIST MEDITATION ASSOCIATION 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.
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 3funders 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