Public Charity

DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION

Based in BOULDER, CO, DHARMA OCEAN FOUNDATION operates as a Public Charity. The organization reported $188K in revenue, $302K in expenses, $3.1M in total assets for fiscal year 2025. Imperigo tracks 8 reported grant relationships connected to this organization totaling approximately $80K.

EIN: 202417344 BOULDER, CO Buddhism NTEE: X50 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$188K
Total Expenses$302K
Total Assets$3.1M
Grant Records8
Funding Total$80K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

TO STUDY AND PRACTICE THE TEACHINGS OF THE "PRACTICING LINEAGE". TO TRANSMIT TO OTHERS THE VIEW AND THE STEP BY STEP PATH TO REALIZATION OF THE PRACTICING LINEAGE. TO MAKE WHATEVER ADJUSTMENTS AND ADAPTIONS, SUCH AS A GREATER EMPHASIS ON EMBODIMENT AND DIRECT EXPERIENCE, AS MAY BE NECESSARY OR ORDER TO RENDER THIS LINEAGE FULLY ACCESIBLE IN OUR PRESENT WORLD.

Where $100 goes at Dharma Ocean Foundation

How Dharma Ocean Foundation divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$71 Programs the work itself
$28 Management running the organization
$1 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $71 for programs

$71
Ongoing performance of educational programs which serve to provide instruction in meditation practices and dharma teachings as presented by chogyam trungpa rinpoche and somatic meditation practices of meditating…
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Sample Grants Received

2024
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$5,500
2023
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$12,300
2022
GENERAL SUPPORT
$6,103
2022
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$6,000
2021
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$6,000

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Officers & Directors

SPIRITUAL DI Caroline Pfohl
SECRETARY George Harris
BOARD PRESID Jake La Botz

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Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$79,967 8 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $188K $302K $3.1M
2024 $392K $518K $3.2M
2023 $663K $999K $3.4M
2022 $272K $840K $3.7M
2021 $463K $723K $4.4M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $463K to $188K (-59%), with total assets most recently reported at $3.1M.

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