Bon Shen Ling-The Tibetan Bon Education Fund

Analysis

Bon Shen Ling-The Tibetan Bon Education Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakdale, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bon Shen Ling-The Tibetan Bon Education Fund reported income of $226k and spending of $264k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $444k to $226k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bon Shen Ling-The Tibetan Bon Education Fund sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include T Birds with a Purpose Inc ($226k), Canvas Foundation ($226k) and Bradford Charitable Foundation ($226k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $35k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $301k, net assets of $938k. It reported 1 employees.