Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation

Analysis

Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation reported income of $178k and spending of $195k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $244k to $178k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 462%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tibetan Nyingma Relief Foundation sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Braver Collective ($178k), Foundation Dinners ($178k) and Shelter Development Inc ($178k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $827k against liabilities of $194, net assets of $827k.