Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SCIENCE FOR MONKS
SCIENCE FOR MONKS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,443,636 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($1,481,427). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $549k
What Science for Monks does
Mission
The mission of Science for Monks is to nurture leaders who are establishing the indigenous capacity of the tibetan monastic community to engage in new science learning and dialogue.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
Nuns program - the second cohort of the nuns' leadership program commenced on march 11th 2024 at ltwa, dharamsala, for three weeks, and it lasted till march 31st, 2024. 40 nuns from 4 different nunneries participated in this program, most of whom were learning science for the first time. The three-week rigorous science learning program was designed as follows: for the first week, teachers from the science department of ltwa conducted the classes, whereas they brushed up on the basics to prepare themselves for the second and third week. Guest teachers took over the class for the second and third weeks.
$97,341 spentScience leadership program - the fourth cohort leadership program began on february 16th and ended on march 5th 2024, at the tibetan pavilion, auroville in pondicherry. This year, the program mainly focused on honing skills in tibetan creative writing and video editing. As for their final project, some participants are writing about science and buddhism and while others are making videos associated with science and buddhism.
$48,670 spentBhutan science leadership program - from 8th to 20th april 2024, the bhutan science leadership program was held at the pal zurmang monastery in gangtok. This workshop aimed to familiarize participants with the principles and concepts of quantum physics. We had a total of 37 participants, representing 12 different monasteries and nunneries. The two-week workshop was led by two visiting teachers from the u.s., george musser, a renowned planetary scientist, and ian durham, a respected physicist. The science department staff of ltwa provided valuable support, offering interpretation assistance for participants who did not understand english.
$38,936 spentTeacher fellowship program - the 2-week teacher fellowship began on 25th december 2023 and concluded on 10th january 2024 at the dalai lama institute for higher studies, bangalore. There were 13 participants which include, including 6 monks, 1 nun, and 6 laity participants, and they were all active science teachers in different monasteries. Throughout this program, the participants were inspired to rethink the possibilities of teaching and learning in their classrooms by attending classes taught by renowned teachers from different places.
$9,734 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $334k to $546k (+64%).
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 SCIENCE FOR MONKS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $317k → $302k.
From the IRS filings of SCIENCE FOR MONKS’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
SCIENCE FOR MONKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 65% · 2019 52% · 2020 63% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SCIENCE FOR MONKS draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
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
SCIENCE FOR MONKS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SCIENCE FOR MONKS
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 Massachusetts
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 SCIENCE FOR MONKS: 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 SCIENCE FOR MONKS?
- SCIENCE FOR MONKS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,443,636 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($1,481,427). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE FOR MONKS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,443,636 in grants to SCIENCE FOR MONKS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE FOR MONKS?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,481,427 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE FOR MONKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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