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TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT

EIN 68-0327175 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2025
$2,518,314
Expenses 2025
$1,501,468

Program services were 73.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q710
Classification
1000
Street
815 SEATTLE BLVD S STE 418

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 · 2025

Mission

The mission of the Tibetan Nuns Project is to 1) educate and empower the nuns of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as teachers and leaders, and 2) establish, strengthen, and support educational institutions to preserve Tibetan religion and culture.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To improve the quality of life and education of nuns of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition living in India. The project provides facilities and programs to educate and empower these women. Also, to increase awareness of the concerns of the nuns and of Tibetan refugees in general.

  • Improved quality of life and education of Tibetan nuns living in India, increased awareness of their concerns and of Tibetan refugees in general, and trained a generation of women to take leadership roles within their community. Funding has gone to feed, clothe, house, educate, and provide medical care to over 800 nuns in eight different nunneries in the Himalayan region of India.

    Expenses $1,102,338 · Grants $1,016,654 · Revenue $2,518,314

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lisa Farmer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $136,254
    From this org
    $122,753
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,501
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robin Groth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dechen Tsering

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jalene Szuba

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Frederica Lofquist

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Elizabeth Napper

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Tseten Phanucharas

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Steve Wilhelm

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Elizabeth Goldblatt

    Treasurer

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,518,314
    Expenses
    $1,501,468
    Contributions
    $2,237,046
    Grants paid
    $1,016,654
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,756,354
    Expenses
    $1,527,875
    Contributions
    $1,520,253
    Grants paid
    $1,070,090
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,380,787
    Expenses
    $1,468,295
    Contributions
    $1,169,768
    Grants paid
    $1,022,486
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,424,985
    Expenses
    $1,144,458
    Contributions
    $2,319,603
    Grants paid
    $760,511

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
    $1,755,283
    Expenses
    $958,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,625,789

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,777,399
    Expenses
    $1,111,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,844,993

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

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.