The Profound Treasury Retreat
Legal name: The Profound Treasury Dharma Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
The Profound Treasury Dharma Foundation’s mission is to share the living tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s dharma teachings as widely as possible. The Profound Treasury Dharma Foundation is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and propagate the living tradition of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s dharma teachings—the teachings of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, and the teachings of the Rime tradition, of Tibetan Buddhism—as well as his cultural, artistic, social, and non-sectarian spiritual teachings. We provide support for senior teachers and scholars, and a forum for them to share their wisdom, knowledge, and guidance. We do this by offering retreats, and by sponsoring lectures, seminars, study groups, and other practice and study programs. Our Values.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsorship of other programs / individuals
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 95% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461957635
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.