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PEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION

EIN 20-5958865 STEAMBOAT SPR, CO

Revenue 2024
$1,095,135
Expenses 2024
$1,858,176

Program services were 94.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X50
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 770630

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

Support and encouragement of Buddhist monasticism and the Buddhist tradition world-wide, and to manifest the Buddhist vision by providing support and assistance to community-based organizations that serve marginalized populations such as distressed families (especially children and teens), abused individuals, the incarcerated, and drug addicts. In addition, to create and support a permanent Endowment Fund so that it can carry on these activities into the distant future.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Support and encouragement of Buddhist monasticism and the Buddhist tradition world-wide, and to manifest the Buddhist vision by providing support and assistance to community-based organizations that serve marginalized populations.

  • Various Other Programs - (see Schedules I and F). In North America and South Asia grants to 42 additional organizations and 8 retreatants: support for monasteries, monastics, and meditation centers, including scholarships for education; support health programs; support youth rehabilitation & training; provide books on meditation to prisoners and the underserved; support translation and archiving of Buddhist masters' teachings.

    Expenses $861,225 · Grants $819,878

  • Drala Mountain Center is located on 600 acres in a mountain valley in Northern Colorado which has hosted Buddhist and other contemplative retreats snce 1971. In 2024 the Foundation granted $300,000 to help pay down a distressed loan for the center, subsidized scholarships for a youth retreat, and donated to its operating funds.

    Expenses $394,323 · Grants $375,392

  • Gampo Abbey is a Buddhist monastery founded in 1983 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Grant funds will supplement the Abbey's income to support operations and individual monastics in the pursuit of their spiritual studies and meditation practice. The Abbey provides annual financial reports. One of the Foundation's Board members visits the Abbey annually to confirm progress.

    Expenses $293,086 · Grants $279,015

  • Mangala Shri Bhuti is a Buddhist meditation retreat center located in Crestone, Colorado which provides retreat space and facilities for Buddhist practitioners to meet, receive teachings, and participate in religious ceremonies. Mangala Shri Bhuti provides regular reports on its activities, and during the year the facilities are visited by a Board member.

    Expenses $210,086 · Grants $200,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Glenna Olmsted

    Foundation Mgr.

    Total calculated
    $40,800
    From this org
    $40,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Martha Kirkman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $26,400
    From this org
    $26,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Timothy Olmsted

    President

    Total calculated
    $16,500
    From this org
    $16,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Marjorie Rodgers

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $16,224
    From this org
    $16,224
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    14

  • Arvo Fallon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,220
    From this org
    $11,220
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Cathryn Mayer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $7,200
    From this org
    $7,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Pema Chodron

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $4,800
    From this org
    $4,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $1,095,135
    Expenses
    $1,858,176
    Contributions
    $486,308
    Grants paid
    $1,674,285
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $771,441
    Expenses
    $1,328,676
    Contributions
    $172,825
    Grants paid
    $1,116,772
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,038,159
    Expenses
    $1,668,827
    Contributions
    $226,867
    Grants paid
    $1,481,033

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
    $1,930,179
    Expenses
    $1,271,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,183,827

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $994,404
    Expenses
    $1,384,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,773,188

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,122,557
    Expenses
    $1,259,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,818,623

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,168,702
    Expenses
    $902,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,087,087

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $847,345
    Expenses
    $415,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,778,923

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.

Where these grants went next →

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