New Hampshire · Nonprofit
VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY
VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being THE HELP FOR PEOPLE FOUNDATION ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Valley Insight Meditation Society does
Mission
To provide opportunities for the practice, study, and teaching of Theravada Buddhism in the Insight (Vipassana) Meditation tradition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Meditation instruction and sangha gatherings (in-person and virtual). These included: meditation sessions 3 evenings/week and one weekday morning; early morning gathering each weekday; day-long meditation retreats; periodic guided nature walks; introduction to mediation class; various dharma study opportunities; Vesak Day (international Buddhist holiday); various monthly discussion groups, including Aging and Engaged Buddhism. Society pays for two guiding teachers administrative work. Attendance for each of these events ranged from 6 to 35 people.
$16,538 spent47% of program spendingCommunity Outreach: Monthly newsletters out to the community. Web design and hosting, scholarships as needed. Guiding Teacher Support. Donation to local monastery.
$15,922 spent45% of program spendingPrison Outreach Program: Expenses include books and mileage reimbursement.
$2,654 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,114.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $72k to $92k (+27%).
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.
95% of VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY’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
VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY: 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 VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY?
- VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,000 to it, the largest being THE HELP FOR PEOPLE FOUNDATION ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $42,000 in grants to VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY?
- THE HELP FOR PEOPLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2021–2025), 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