New York · Nonprofit
Universal Peace Federation
Universal Peace Federation (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,344,560 to it, the largest being The Universal Ballet Foundation ($19,321,862). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Universal Peace Federation does
Mission
Development of a global culture of service and cooperation, guided by the principle of "living for the sake of others". Peacebuilding efforts among governmental, religious, cultural, education and civil society representatives working together with mutual respect and a shared commitment to cooperation and good governance. Renewal of the United Nations, including a recommendation that the UN create an interreligious council within its structures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS 2024The International Leadership Conference 2024 UPF organized the International Leadership Conference in Seoul, Korea on April 24, 2024 on the theme: 'Religious Harmony and the Peaceful Unification of the Korean Peninsula". More than 500 top level world leaders attended from 80 nations. REGIONAL, NATIONAL CONFERENCES AND EVENTS were held by UPF's Regional offices and national headquarters as follows: UPF EUME and UPF Canada Conference organized a program on the theme "View of DPRK from Within" on November 28, 2024 UPF EUME International Leadership Conference was convened in Austria on the theme: "Ukraine Prospects for a Common Future" on December 13. 2024. The Asia Pacific Union Project, sponsored by UPF Philippines, took place on May 13, 2024. pointing out peacebuilding potential.The UPF Peace Education Seminar was conducted on November 9, 2024 by UPF Thailand on the "Role of Marriage and Family involving 20 Asia Pacific nations. There were 306 participants from 20 nations.The International Leadership Conference organized by UPF Cambodia, in cooperation the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace, was convened on November 26, 2024 in…
$1,666,098 spentof which $1,181,117 as grants$2,292 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,666,098.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $18M (+419%).
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% · 2022 0% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Universal Peace Federation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Dr Chang Shik Yang
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $19M.
1 of 3 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 Universal Peace Federation’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
Universal Peace Federation 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
100% 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 Universal Peace Federation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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 Universal Peace Federation's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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 Peace Federation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Universal Peace Federation
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Universal Peace Federation: 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 Peace Federation?
- Universal Peace Federation (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,344,560 to it, the largest being The Universal Ballet Foundation ($19,321,862). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Universal Peace Federation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,344,560 in grants to Universal Peace Federation.
- Who is the largest funder of Universal Peace Federation?
- The Universal Ballet Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $19,321,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Universal Peace Federation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 3 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