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BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF

EIN 26-2852923 FOSTER CITY, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$1,896,521
Expenses 2024
$1,891,927

Program services were 93.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
506 BROUGHTON LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING, POVERTY AND OPPRESSION THROUGH DIRECT AID, ECONOMIC AND TECHINICAL ASSISTANCE, EDUCATION AND OTHER FORMS OF CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE IN NEED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

  • BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF HAS MADE ADDITIONAL SMALLER GRANTS TO PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE FOR: (1) EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR COMMUNITIES SUFFERING FROM NATURAL DISASTERS, (2) PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH ACCESS TO VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS, (3) ASSISTANCE TO ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING MEALS AND NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION TO THE HOMELESS AND POOR, (4) COMMUNITY FARM DEVELOPMENT WITH INSTRUCTION ON SUSTAINABLE AND ECOLOGICAL FARMING METHODS TO PROVIDE INCREASED YIELDS AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT, AND (5) CHILDRENS EDUCATION.

    Expenses $1,431,380 · Grants $1,394,500

  • BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF WORKS WITH LONGTIME PARTNER WORLD FOOD PROGRAM AND FEEDING AMERICA TO ADDRESS FOOD SHORTAGE IN THE US, AFGHANISTAN, ETHOPIA, GAZA, UKRAINE,AND LIBYA.

    Expenses $252,969 · Grants $240,000

  • BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF WITH LONGTIME PARTNER ACTION AGAINST HUNGER TO ADDRESS THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION AMONG CHILDREN IN VILLAGES IN MPWAPWA DISTRICT OF THE DODOMA REGION OF TANZANIA BY INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF NUTRIENT-RICH CROPS AND THE CONSUMPTION OF THESE FOODS TO IMPROVE DIETARY DIVERSIFICATION. ADDITIONALLY, BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF ALSO WORKS WITH ACTION AGAINST HUNGER TO ADRESS FOOD SHORTAGE IN SUDAN.

    Expenses $76,950 · Grants $75,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kim Behan

    EXECUTIVE DIREC

    Total calculated
    $45,000
    From this org
    $45,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Patricia Price

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $25,000
    From this org
    $25,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Ven Bhikkhu Bodhi

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • W David Braughton

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Daniel Blake

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Clapp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Charles Elliott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Jessie Benjamin

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sylvie Sun

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ven Ayya Dhammadipa

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ven Jin Chuan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hillary Chen

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Pat Tallman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shae Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,896,521
    Expenses
    $1,891,927
    Contributions
    $1,779,036
    Grants paid
    $1,709,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,806,042
    Expenses
    $1,927,648
    Contributions
    $1,654,299
    Grants paid
    $1,754,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,921,408
    Expenses
    $2,189,178
    Contributions
    $3,838,371
    Grants paid
    $2,043,934

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,847,193
    Expenses
    $1,281,632
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,067,165

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,192,296
    Expenses
    $1,183,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,192

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $812,054
    Expenses
    $857,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $454,645

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,281,201
    Expenses
    $819,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,668

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $718,032
    Expenses
    $682,243
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,067

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $637,337
    Expenses
    $698,463
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,468

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $589,288
    Expenses
    $693,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,452

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $547,300
    Expenses
    $478,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $158,117

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.