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SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION

SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,996 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,996). 0 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
$4.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$38M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Shinnyo-En Foundation does

Mission

Promote global peace through service by nurturing future generations through supporting community-based organizations and educational institutions that promote and engage youth in meaningful acts of service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation supports the goals of the shinnyo-en order, by promoting the tenets of harmony, compassion and altruism; those "universal values" espoused by the founder of the order. The foundation's grant program supports community-based organizations and educational institutions that promote and engage youth in meaningful acts of service with the ultimate goal of promoting global peace through service. During the 2024 tax year, the organization made 29 grants totaling $345,882.

    $1,007,224 spentof which $345,882 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,007,224.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 111 ($2.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 98 ($18M)2019 Revenue 173 ($3.6M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 119 ($22M)2020 Revenue 111 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.3M) Net assets 139 ($25M)2021 Revenue 94 ($2.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.2M) Net assets 159 ($29M)2022 Revenue 122 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 143 ($26M)2023 Revenue 122 ($2.5M) Expenses 102 ($1.3M) Net assets 166 ($30M)2024 Revenue 147 ($3.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.4M) Net assets 189 ($34M)2025 Revenue 230 ($4.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 212 ($38M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (108)Net assets (212)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 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $35M (+17%).

$18M
$18M
$22M
$25M
$29M
$26M
$30M
$35M
$39M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

42% of SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$768k
’17
$936k
’18
$2.2M
’19
$988k
’20
$736k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$1.2M
’23
$1.6M
’24
$3.4M
’25
15
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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Listed99991010121111
Joined·+0+0+0+3+0+3+0+1
No longer listed·00020111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $38k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Shinnyo-En Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SHINNYO-EN 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SHINNYO-EN 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. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin70% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Shinnyo-En USA · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION?
SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,996 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,996). 0 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 SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,996 in grants to SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHINNYO-EN 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.

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 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