Konchok Foundation
Overview
Mission
To support educational and other charitable activities in low income areas of the Eastern Tibetan provinces of China especially in the Surmang Valley.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support for basic living expenses for more than a hundred low income nuns and monks on long-term study or meditation retreats in Surmang area of the eastern Tibetan provinces of China. The nuns also distribute some of the food they receive to low income local families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800056576
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Website checked
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- 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
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -143.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.4; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.