California · Nonprofit
THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM
THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being JOHN E FETZER INSTITUTE INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $14M
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.
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 $12M to $14M (+16%).
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
Liz Lewinson
CEO, treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM’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
THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
40% 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 THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM.
“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
THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
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.
Organizations like THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM
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In California
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 THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM: 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 THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM?
- THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being JOHN E FETZER INSTITUTE INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM?
- JOHN E FETZER INSTITUTE INC 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 THE FREDERICK P LENZ FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN BUDDHISM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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