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HIMALAYAN CHILDRENS FUND

EIN 95-4121177 BEVERLY HILLS, CA

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Revenue 2024
$836,225
Expenses 2024
$780,413

Program services were 91.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1000
Street
NORTH MAPLE DR

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

The Himalayan Children's Fund is a way for people around the world, and the west in particular, to connect with the lives of people in the Himalayan Region of Nepal, India and Tibet. HCF provides support for Thrangu Rinpoche's many compassionate activities such as schools, monasteries and clinics. By providing support for education, food, clothing, medicine and other needs we hope to equip the children and adults with the tools necessary for life enhancement while helping to preserve the culture of the people which is primarily of Tibetan and Buddhist heritage.

Activities or mission (Part I)

HCF provides crucial financial support for education, food, clothing and medical care for the impoverished people of the Himalayan region who are primarily of Tibetan and Buddhist heritage.

  • The Himalayan Children's Fund (HCF) is a conduit of happiness and delight for donors and recipients alike - a deep connection is made that brings joy to the spirit. Guided by the humanitarian vision of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, HCF donors and sponsors support numerous projects in Nepal, India and Tibet. By funding schools, monasteries, nunneries, monastic colleges and clinics we help preserve the culture of the Himalayan people while providing education, medical care and basic living assistance. The resulting benefit after 36 years: as the children thrive and grow - donors do the same!HCF donors currently maintain the sponsorship of 113 nuns, 34 monks and 233 lay students. These funds pay for education fees, food and clothing. Our donors also provide funding for many other needs such as health care, educational supplies, blankets and beds, water filters, rain water collection systems, sports equipment and building repairs.

    Expenses $710,387

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.

  • Debra Ann Robinson-Menzies

    Director

    Total calculated
    $42,000
    From this org
    $42,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joann Parks

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.13

  • Maria Bardini-Perkins

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $836,225
    Expenses
    $780,413
    Contributions
    $571,302
    Grants paid
    $710,387
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $755,539
    Expenses
    $688,660
    Contributions
    $679,536
    Grants paid
    $623,840
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $390,400
    Expenses
    $365,581
    Contributions
    $334,050
    Grants paid
    $311,457

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
    $538,853
    Expenses
    $484,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,286,054

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $567,382
    Expenses
    $517,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,713,825

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $533,393
    Expenses
    $426,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,150,757

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $535,903
    Expenses
    $451,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,150,739

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $429,096
    Expenses
    $444,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,000,203

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $429,096
    Expenses
    $444,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,000,203

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,795,450
    Expenses
    $566,817
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,961,174

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $948,605
    Expenses
    $436,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,929

  • 2009 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $390,712
    Expenses
    $345,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,926

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.