American Buddhist Study Center Inc
Overview
Mission
Promote the philosphy of buddhism
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide a center to promote mutual exchange of information and a reference center with textbooks, scriptures and sutras to promote buddhism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134084178
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: -54%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.52; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.