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SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC

SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,232 to it, the largest being WOOD KALB FOUNDATION ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$143k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$168k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Shang Shung Institute in America Inc does

Mission

To foster knowledge and development of tibetan cultural traditions

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Sponsor courses and lectures on tibetan medicine, art and culture-400 people served

    $103,733 spent$92,099 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $103,733.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($107k)2018 Revenue 98 ($144k) Expenses 93 ($135k) Net assets 108 ($115k)2019 Revenue 95 ($141k) Expenses 91 ($132k) Net assets 117 ($124k)2020 Revenue 115 ($170k) Expenses 81 ($118k) Net assets 165 ($176k)2021 Revenue 111 ($164k) Expenses 110 ($161k) Net assets 168 ($179k)2022 Revenue 89 ($131k) Expenses 101 ($147k) Net assets 153 ($163k)2023 Revenue 85 ($126k) Expenses 85 ($123k) Net assets 156 ($166k)2024 Revenue 97 ($143k) Expenses 97 ($142k) Net assets 157 ($168k)
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Revenue (97)Expenses (97)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $138k to $178k (+29%).

$126k
$126k
$138k
$178k
$184k
$176k
$173k
$173k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$9k
’18
$9k
’19
$52k
’20
$3k
’21
−$16k
’22
$3k
’23
$1k
’24
0.7
months of
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.

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Listed45555444
Joined·+3+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·2000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $21k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
3
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

34% 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 SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 76% — 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.

Where its funders are

SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC?
SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,232 to it, the largest being WOOD KALB FOUNDATION ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,232 in grants to SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC?
WOOD KALB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHANG SHUNG INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INC 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.

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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