Colorado · Nonprofit
TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION
TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,987 to it, the largest being THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND ($834,460). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation does
Mission
The foundation provides humanitarian assistance to qualifying organizations in the united states and throughout the world in order to allieviate human suffering and to provide education to underserved populations.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation raises funds and coordinates fundraising inernationally for ongoing support and education for approximately 220 tibetan buddhist nuns in nepal. Thf has been raising funds since 2012 for a capital campaign to build tsoknyi gechak ling nunnery on chobhar hill outside of kathmandu, nepal. The building project consists of 6 buildings. The top 3 primary services are to provide funding towards construction of a new primary school,educational expenses and ongoing support for the tsoknyi nunneries in nepal and tibet.
$957,411 spentof which $904,982 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $957,411.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.5M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $35k → $208k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN 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
TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 72% · 2021 94% · 2022 68% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
36% of TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
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 TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN 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 TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION?
- TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,253,987 to it, the largest being THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND ($834,460). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,253,987 in grants to TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION?
- THE OWSLEY BROWN III PHILANTHROPIC FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $834,460 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 16 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