California · Nonprofit
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,291 to it, the largest being ESPERANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $752k
What Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation does
Mission
Mission:Our mission is to rebuild, preserve, strengthen, and perpetuate the cultural and spiritual heritage of Tibet for the benefit of Tibetan people and all humanity. Our Primary Program:Funding the production, shipment and distribution of sacred texts, art and prayer wheels for donation to institutions and individuals in the Himalyan region. Other program activities: Sponsoring ceremonies important to sustaining the lineages of all Tibetan Buddhist schools. Providing financial support for monastic centers, lamas, monks, nuns and lay perople.Promoting awareness of Tibet's heritage of the West through publications, presentations, exhibits, and the production and sale of culturally significant items.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation helps to support the production, shipping, trucking and distribution of cultural and spiritual texts in the Tibetan language to Tibetans in exile in India and throughout the Himalayan region, helping to preserve their culture and language from extinction. Thus far over 5.5 million texts have been freely distributed. The books touch the lives of over 150,000 refugees living in India and the surrounding region by being available to monks, nuns, lay people, monasteries, schools and libraries throughout the region.
$181,872 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $181,872.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 $170k to $873k (+412%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $208.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Tibetan Nyingma Relief 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 99% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation: 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 Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation?
- Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,291 to it, the largest being ESPERANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($90,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $172,291 in grants to Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation?
- ESPERANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tibetan Nyingma Relief 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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