Wat Mahabuddhaphumi
Overview
Mission
Provide services such as house blessing, funeral rites, wedding blessing, hospital visits, and merit making on buddhist holidays
What it reported doing in 2017
Continued to provide services as in prior years
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 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134285986
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Headquarters
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.5%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 6.15; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.5% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.