International Shakyamuni Buddh
Legal name: International Shakyauni Buddha
Overview
Mission
Religious services and spiritual guidance
What it reported doing in 2025
Practice the Buddhist religion. It is a way of life in purifying of
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205204958
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Website checked
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Headquarters
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Rating
- 64
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- 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
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 104.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2022 to 2025
- 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.