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WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC

WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,325 to it, the largest being THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$4.8M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Wisdom Publications Inc does

Mission

To publish books and other media to advance the education of the public with respect to buddhist religion, philosophy, and practice.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To publish books and other media to advance the education of the public with respect to buddhist religion, philosophy, and practice.

    $1,767,300 spentof which $6,870 as grants$1,732,715 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,767,300.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2018 Revenue 92 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.7M) Net assets 102 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 103 ($2.1M) Expenses 125 ($2.0M) Net assets 103 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 126 ($2.5M) Expenses 109 ($1.8M) Net assets 122 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 115 ($2.3M) Expenses 114 ($1.8M) Net assets 134 ($5.2M)2022 Revenue 99 ($2.0M) Expenses 134 ($2.1M) Net assets 129 ($5.0M)2023 Revenue 108 ($2.1M) Expenses 143 ($2.3M) Net assets 125 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 106 ($2.1M) Expenses 134 ($2.2M) Net assets 124 ($4.8M)
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Revenue (106)Expenses (134)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $4.5M to $5.7M (+26%).

$4.5M
$4.4M
$4.5M
$5.7M
$5.9M
$6.0M
$5.8M
$5.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$380k
’17
$91k
’18
$44k
’19
$734k
’20
$447k
’21
−$184k
’22
−$168k
’23
−$43k
’24
3.2
months of
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

Timothy Mcneill

Clerk/chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed44455666
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $219k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC’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

WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

27% 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 WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC.

29%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 86% · 2020 71% · 2021 61% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — 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

20% of WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 17%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC?
WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,325 to it, the largest being THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,037,325 in grants to WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC?
THE HERSHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP C CASEY is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WISDOM PUBLICATIONS INC 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.

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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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing