Lotus Foundation
EIN 76-0352152 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 3 grants · $9.8k
Who it funds most
4 of its 6 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Lotus Foundation's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 6 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2024, filing 202530589349301228
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Form 990 | $3.0m | — | $114.4k |
| 2023 | Form 990 | $2.7m | — | $76.1k |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202630639349301248 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202530589349301228 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202400959349301470 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202331079349301758 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202221059349301957 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202131379349310188 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Lotus Foundation made 27 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $376.9k as filed.
- Grants
- 27
- Total, as filed
- $376.9k
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| SRUD UNITED FUND INC' | 1 | $108.2k |
| STUF UNITED FUND | 3 | $107.4k |
| STUF UNITED FUND INC | 2 | $71.1k |
| TRUE BUDDHA SOCIETY OF HOUSTON | 4 | $54.4k |
| TRUE BUDDHA TEMPLE | 1 | $11.3k |
| TRUE BUDDHA SOCIETRY OF HOUSTON | 1 | $6.1k |
| MISC CHARITY ORGANIZATION | 1 | $5.7k |
| LING SHEN CHING TZE TEMPLE | 4 | $4.5k |
| MISC ORGANIZATION | 1 | $4.1k |
| FAPA | 5 | $2.5k |
| KALACHAKRA BUDDHA ASSOCIATION | 1 | $700 |
| LING SHEN TEMPLE | 1 | $690 |
| RAINBOW TEMPLE | 1 | $100 |
| TRUE BUDDHA DIAMOND TEMPLE OF NY | 1 | $100 |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | $123.0k |
| 2021 | 5 | $80.2k |
| 2022 | 4 | $36.9k |
| 2023 | 4 | $48.1k |
| 2024 | 5 | $64.4k |
| 2025 | 5 | $24.3k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-760352152. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified