Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,292 to it, the largest being WON EDIFICATION CENTER ($162,086). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Won Institute of Graduate Studies does
Mission
The mission of the Won Institute of Graduate Studies is to provide quality graduate-level professional education and training in the practical applications of spirituality and the healing arts for the well-being of individuals and society. The programs offered are graduate education programs leading to master of won buddhist studies, doctor of acupuncture, master of acupuncture studies, certificate in chinese herbal medicine, and certificate of won buddhist studies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The won institute is a specialized graduate school focusing on the professional and personal development of its students. It offers graduate programs in won buddhist studies, doctor of acupuncture, acupuncture studies, certificate program in chinese herbal medicine, and certificate of won buddhist studies. It offers continuing education studies and provides health and meditation services to the community through acupuncture clinics, such as it's veterans clinic and on-site meditation. It is regionally accredited through middle states commission on higher education and programmatically accredited through the accreditation commission for acupuncture and oriental medicine.
$1,797,376 spentof which $130,014 as grants$2,490,113 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,797,376.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $4.6M to $6.9M (+49%).
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: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Sook Ja Choi Md
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $39 → $120k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES’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 INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 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 WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $229k on record.
- Department of Education$229k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Won Edificaion Center of Pa Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES: 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 INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES?
- WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,292 to it, the largest being WON EDIFICATION CENTER ($162,086). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $219,292 in grants to WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES?
- WON EDIFICATION CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $162,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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