Los Angeles Buddhist Coordinating Council
Overview
Mission
Camp program for Buddhist children
What it reported doing in 2024
Summer camp program for buddhist children from Temples in Southern California. Funded by contributions from temple members and camp registration fees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237070089
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Torrance, CA, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,369
- Expenses
- $72,941
- Assets
- $189,085
- Liabilities
- $813
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.59; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2014 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- James Matsushita (Chairman)
- Mark Oune (Treasurer)
- Bessie Tanaka (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.