California · Nonprofit
WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE
WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,990 to it, the largest being YUNSAN & SOOIN LEE FOUNDATION ($9,510). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Won Buddhism San Francisco Temple does
Mission
Precepts and practices in the united states of america. Won buddism is founded in order to lead all living beings to the vast and boundless garden or the source, away from the self delusory veils or filters of our egos, by means of strengthening the power of spirit over the forces of material things through faith in a religion based on truth and through actual moral training to propagate the principles of faith and moral training with the four graces, that is, the grace of heaven and earth, the grace of parents, the grace of brethren, and the grace of law, and with the threefold trainings, that is, the cultivation of spiritual stability, the study of facts and principles and the selection of right conducts to provide assistance and care forchildren and elderly people who need help to carry on general welfare works such as cultivation education and charity in accordance with principles of won buddhism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
This corporation is a religious organization established solely for religious purposes under the Nonprofit Religious Corporation Law. It does not seek private gain for any individual.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $386k to $2.9M (+656%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Youngha Lee
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $124 → $4k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE’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
WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480 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.
Organizations like WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE
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.
Where the money goes
18% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE: 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 WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE?
- WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,990 to it, the largest being YUNSAN & SOOIN LEE FOUNDATION ($9,510). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,990 in grants to WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE?
- YUNSAN & SOOIN LEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WON BUDDHISM SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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