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TIBET HOUSE INC

EIN 13-3438221 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$4,875,268
Expenses 2024
$5,170,983

Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A230
Classification
1000
Street
22 W 15TH ST

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 PROMOTE AWARENESS OF TIBET AND TIBETAN POLITICAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURE STRUCTURE.

  • To present and promote Tibetan cultural heritage to a western audienceMenla Programs: retreats, workshops and spa treatments promoted by Tibet House US, co-sponsored workshops, retreats at Tibet House owned Menla retreat and resort to offer programming in spiritual development, Tibetan arts and culture, wellness lifestyle and more.Publications: translations of major Tibetan scholarly Buddhist texts from Tibetan into English, as well as fiction and non-fiction publications on the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and other major figures in Tibetan Buddhist cultural history.Tibet House programs: educational programs addressing diverse topics of Tibetan Buddhism, Art & Culture, meditation and certification programs. Conferences, online and in person highlighting the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as well as members of the academic, scientific, and activist communities.

    Expenses $4,026,623

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.

  • ROBERT THURMAN

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHILIP GLASS

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUDWIG KUTTNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • INA BECKER

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER BACKMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNIE CHRISTOPHER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL AITKEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANET FRIESEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN KESSLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID KITTAY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL MCCORMICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN MILLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VEN TENZIN PRIYADARSHI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN REZK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARJORIE LAYDEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT SNIBBE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NENA THURMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEATA TIKOS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL BURBANK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THUPTEN JINPA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURENCE SILVERMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • UMA THURMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELE LOEW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID PHILLIPS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LIVIA CONSTANTINESCU

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $4,875,268
    Expenses
    $5,170,983
    Contributions
    $884,285
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,775,130
    Expenses
    $5,229,704
    Contributions
    $805,409
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,558,021
    Expenses
    $4,715,570
    Contributions
    $901,443
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,612,495
    Expenses
    $4,630,697
    Contributions
    $829,320
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,793,369
    Expenses
    $4,362,066
    Contributions
    $1,492,514
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,702,859
    Expenses
    $4,238,045
    Contributions
    $1,159,080
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $3,536,294
    Expenses
    $3,519,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,076,126

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,678,339
    Expenses
    $3,301,318
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,378,902

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,212,556
    Expenses
    $2,803,167
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,583,327

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,570,810
    Expenses
    $2,837,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,869,681

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,272,743
    Expenses
    $3,395,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,651,485

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,696,851
    Expenses
    $2,912,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,547,953

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,499,308
    Expenses
    $2,709,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,566,373

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,777,047
    Expenses
    $2,619,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,869,260

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,305,460
    Expenses
    $2,534,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,644,938

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,614,813
    Expenses
    $2,468,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,783,039

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.