California · Nonprofit
SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION
SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,033 to it, the largest being The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,034 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
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.
- BESS Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Pema Chodron Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST 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
SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33 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.
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.
- BESS Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDE · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pema Chodron Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Chintamani Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khyentse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yuelu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lacygoldenstein Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MY Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- K & W Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keiro Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sodhani Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tan Teo Charitable Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
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 SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST 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 SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION?
- SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,033 to it, the largest being The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,033 in grants to SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION?
- The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 2funders 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