BGR Emergency/Crisis Grants
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Rolling (quarterly review)
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “Status: Active - grants awarded on an ongoing basis”
Overview
Buddhist Global Relief maintains a dedicated emergency grant program to respond to urgent humanitarian crises, natural disasters, pandemics, and conflict-related emergencies.
Geographic Scope: Global
Focus Areas:
- Natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, winter storms)
- Pandemic response and food insecurity
- Conflict-related emergencies (displacement, persecution)
- Acute hunger crises
- Health emergencies
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects
Funding Commitment: BGR devotes approximately 10% of its annual budget to emergency grants.
Recent Emergency Grants Examples:
- 2025 Crisis Funding: Emergency grants to UNICEF USA and World Food Program USA for Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Sudan (amount not specified in documents)
- September 2021:
- $3,000 to Karuna Trust for Covid food assistance in Sri Lanka
- $5,000 to CARE for earthquake relief in Haiti
- $2,500 to Clearview Project for Rohingya refugee food assistance in Bangladesh
- $2,500 to Better Burma for food relief
- March 2021: $5,000 to Feeding Texas for winter storm relief
Partner Organizations Receiving Emergency Grants:
- UNICEF USA
- World Food Program USA
- Feeding Texas
- Karuna Trust
- CARE
- Clearview Project
- Better Burma
- Helen Keller International
- Action Against Hunger
Application Process: Applications appear to be by invitation or direct outreach to established partner organizations during crisis situations.
Contact Information:
- Address: Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512, USA
- Phone: 1-888-852-7579 (message only)
What Buddhist Global Relief a NJ Nonprofit Corporation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 25
- Total given
- $967K
- Median grant
- $30K
- Range
- $10K–$175K
- By dollars: New York 24%, District of Columbia 20%, California 18%. Top recipient cities: New York, NY; Washing, DC; Atlanta, GA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 4% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
World Food Program · Washing, DC
Community food relief
$175K
Action Against Hunger · New York, NY
Community food relief & farm dev
$75K
Care · Atlanta, GA
Women's education & food relief
$70K
Feeding America · Chicago, IL
Community food relief
$65K
Lotus Outreach International · Ojai, CA
Women's education
$56K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Disaster relief
- Hunger
- Food security
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