California · Nonprofit
WHITE HERON SANGHA
WHITE HERON SANGHA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($5,000). 0 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
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $437k
What White Heron Sangha does
Mission
The specific purposes of this corporation are to promote the instruction, study, and practice of Buddhism, meditation , and related activities, and to provide a regular meeting place and special facilities for these activities in San Luis Obispo County and nearby areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Meetings - Sitting Groups/Classes/Avila: including Sunday Program, Tuesday Evening Dharma, Wednesday Evening Mindfulness for Everyone, Thursday Evening Peace in our Hearts alternating with Loving Kindness Practice and Sunday Morning North County and Sunday Morning South County
$54,432 spent72% of program spendingEngaged Buddhism: Program includes income (donations) and expenses. includes Dignity Hope Village Homeless Program, Adopt a Poll, and other short term projects by our engaged Buddhist community. People donate to EB and we reimburse shoppers furnishing temp rooms for homeless.
$1,088 spent1% of program spendingRetreat: Held a total of four retreats, meeting both in-person and online.
$5,283 spent7% of program spendingWebsite outreach. Supported website access for over 500 members and hundreds of non-members through Zoom and the Club Express membership and event software.
$2,516 spent3% of program spendingScholarship: Teacher Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
$5,430 spent7% of program spendingClasses: A learning program or experiential program.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPantry Program: Members donate to a Pantry Program and we reimburse shoppers.
$7,149 spent9% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,898.
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 $341k to $390k (+14%).
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.
72% of WHITE HERON SANGHA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 5 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 WHITE HERON SANGHA’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 WHITE HERON SANGHA'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. $5k 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
WHITE HERON SANGHA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WHITE HERON SANGHA
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.
Public support
92%
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 WHITE HERON SANGHA: 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 WHITE HERON SANGHA?
- WHITE HERON SANGHA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($5,000). 0 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 WHITE HERON SANGHA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WHITE HERON SANGHA.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE HERON SANGHA?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE HERON SANGHA 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 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