Jamyang Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330386414
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Waialua, HI, USA
Phone
8585255163
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,800
Expenses
$148,171
Assets
$158,567
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robin Mazor (Vice President)
  • Dr Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Robin Mazor (Vice President)
  • Dr Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Dr Yvonne Vaucher (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Jamyang Foundation is an innovative project to help educate girls and young women in developing countries. The project began in 1987 with study programs that combine traditional and contemporary learning. Jamyang Foundation currently supports 390 students in twelve study programs in the India Himalayas, including nine in Zangskar, one in Spiti Valley, and one in Kinnaur. Jamyang Foundation also founded and supports Visakha Girls School. This is a primary school primarily for Marma tribal girls in the area of Manikchari in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Two of our pioneering projects in Dharamsala are now operating independently. They are educating more than 200 students and thus fulfilling the Foundation goal of fostering self sufficiency.

What it reported doing in 2025

Jamyang Foundation supported the educational expenses, including food, teachers, books, stationary supplies, laptops, medical expenses, etc., for 131 girls studying at Visakha Girls' School in Manikchari, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -688.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.