Nechung Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
Promotion of tibetan bhudhism religion
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 90% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133898876
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Poughquag, NY, USA
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Migration, Refugee Issues
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.2%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 7.15; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.2% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.