California · Nonprofit
UNIVERSAL CHAN
UNIVERSAL CHAN (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,317 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,317). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Universal Chan does
Mission
Universal Chan's mission it to spread the chan teachings to deeply benefit those interested in learning the teachings of the buddha.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During 2024 Universal Chan held dharma talk and chan meditation classes for the general public. Explaining the important principles to practice, how to meditate properly, and how to us prajna wisdom in daily life. Atleast 300 people attended.
During 2024 Universal Chan also held meditation retreats. Instructing how to do chan practice moment-by-moment in all kinds of activities, including silently sitting, drinking tea, walking in nature, exercising, and performing light chores. These were 7-day and 3-day programs. Atleast 80 people attended. Additionally, Universal Chan held chan tea sessions: teaching how to live a satisfactory life, fully enjoy each moment, and harmonize with others through the activity of using chan wisdom to drink tea. Atleast 100 people attended.
$42,351 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,351.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $66k to $47k (−29%).
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.
100% of UNIVERSAL CHAN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UNIVERSAL CHAN’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
100% of UNIVERSAL CHAN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Against its field
UNIVERSAL CHAN's revenue fell 37% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSAL CHAN
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSAL CHAN: 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 UNIVERSAL CHAN?
- UNIVERSAL CHAN (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,317 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,317). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSAL CHAN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,317 in grants to UNIVERSAL CHAN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSAL CHAN?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSAL CHAN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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