Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Study Group
Overview
Mission
Religious
What it reported doing in 2023
Provided technical support logistics for online Buddhist teachings. Co-hosted 2 webcast events with sister orgizations in 14 languages. Facilitated 16 live Zoom classes YouTube playback.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113232320
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2016
- Headquarters
- Lakefront Ave, NY, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
- This form does not report enough financial and governance detail to rate the organization. That is normal for this form and is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 33
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Operating reserve ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th 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 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.