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SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC

SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$126k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$250
Net assets
$601k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sing Tao Buddhist Association Inc does

Mission

The association promotes and shares buddhist values, provides financial assistance, medical treatments, food, clothing and shelter to those in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The association promotes and shares buddhist values, provides financial assistance, medical treatments, food, clothing and shelter to those in need.

    $21,301 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,301.

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 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($106k) Net assets 100 ($255k)2018 Revenue 130 ($156k) Expenses 104 ($110k) Net assets 118 ($301k)2019 Revenue 121 ($145k) Expenses 99 ($105k) Net assets 134 ($341k)2020 Revenue 92 ($111k) Expenses 61 ($65k) Net assets 152 ($387k)2021 Revenue 86 ($103k) Expenses 21 ($22k) Net assets 184 ($468k)2022 Revenue 73 ($87k) Expenses 61 ($65k) Net assets 192 ($490k)2023 Revenue 78 ($93k) Expenses 51 ($54k) Net assets 208 ($530k)2024 Revenue 104 ($126k) Expenses 51 ($54k) Net assets 236 ($601k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (51)Net assets (236)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 2020 to 2021, from $387k to $469k (+21%).

$255k
$301k
$341k
$387k
$469k
$491k
$530k
$601k
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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

100% of SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$46k
’18
$40k
’19
$46k
’20
$81k
’21
$23k
’22
$39k
’23
$71k
’24
124
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.

Chief executive

Hua Ling Sun

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION 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.

Where its funders are

SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

IL

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve123.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy 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

39% of spending goes to programs.

Program 39%Management 61%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC: 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 SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC?
SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250 in grants to SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC?
AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SING TAO BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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