Sayaji U Ba Khin Vipassana Association of Southern California
Overview
Mission
Teaching the technique of vipassana meditation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Offer and teach vipassana meditation courses. These courses teach people how to reflect on and purify the mind and enables one to face life's ups and downs with greater equanimity. Most courses are 10 days long but there are one and three day courses as well and weekend children's courses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
- 202268446
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Twentynine Palm, CA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.3%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 45.5%; rating input score 46
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 14.26; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.3% of revenue deployed · 45.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $207K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2011 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.