Vipassana Community Foundation

Analysis

Vipassana Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Onalaska, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, Vipassana Community Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $1.2m (-5.9%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Vipassana Community Foundation sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Nation ($1.2m), Ireland Outreach International ($1.2m) and Cullman Christian School ($1.2m).

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 $4.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $4.4m.