Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Charitable organization · Perth, Ontario · BN 854062361RR0001 · Other Religions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,193,404) as filed with the CRA.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery is a charitable organization based in Perth, Ontario, classified by the CRA under other religions. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $252K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Fostering and promoting the teachings of the buddha and the practice of buddhist meditation. 2. Providing a resource facility for systematic instruction in both buddhist teachings and buddhist meditation. 3. Maintaining residential facilities for the ordained buddhist sangha (clergy)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2.2M | $475K | — | — | $6.1M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $441K | $247K | — | — | $4.6M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $375K | $164K | — | — | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $231K | $220K | $192K | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $252K | $183K | $167K | — | — | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $26K from 9 charities:
- Ottawa Buddhist Society$14K
- Myhal Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,537
- Buddhist Women's Sangha of Ontario$2,400
- Dhamma - a Theravada Buddhist Society$1,010
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$400
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$365
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Vitauts Akers (president / director); Siddarth Deepak (director); Philip Jurgens (secretary / director); Chalaka Liyanage (director); Stephen Sterling (director); Amali Seneviratne (secretary / director); David Roth (treasurer / director); David Poss (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tisarana Buddhist Monastery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854062361RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.