International Buddhism Association Inc
Overview
Mission
Promote buddhism awareness and hold and participate related events.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lectures on buddhism theories and publications
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 90% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205846511
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Headquarters
- Flushing, NY, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related
- 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; 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: 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: -3.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2010 to 2025
- 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.