Milarepa Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133767290
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3105531707
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- International Peace and Security
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,831
- Expenses
- $5,603
- Assets
- $1,212
- Liabilities
- $28,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DECHEN YAUCH (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL DIAMOND (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DECHEN YAUCH (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL DIAMOND (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ADAM HOROVITZ (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The milarepa foundation's primary purpose is to promote public awareness of tibet, nonviolence, and humanitarian issues. Program service accomplishments include: education: the milarepa fund's education program brings attention to tibet, nonviolence and youth activism. Education projects include the tibetan freedom concert, speaking tours, a toll-free information line, a website, a benefit album called tibetan freedom concert, and the feature film free tibet. Foundation: the milarepa fund has a grant program to provide continued support to some of the many groups around the world that live and work compassionately. Milarepa specifically supports groups that promote compassion, nonviolence, and youth activism. Direct action/responsible business: the milarepa fund fully embraces all types of nonviolent action, and works at all levels to get the message of nonviolence out to those who need to hear it most. In the past, the milarepa fund has led a successful boycott of a major hotel chain
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -206%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 23.1; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.