Pure Land Center & Buddhist Library
Legal name: Pure Land Center
Overview
Mission
To provide free distribution of Buddhist materials and texts worldwide, and to serve as a temple for the local community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Weekly informational and practice services, and annual retreat
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 89% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134234030
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Headquarters
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Rating
- 65
- 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. The website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.52; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.96; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $159K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
- 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.