The Vietnamese Buddhist Nuns of America Inc
Overview
Mission
This is a buddhist temple, a place where it is open to the public so that worshippers can come to attend masses, to pray, and to receive support from the nuns and other worshippers.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides a worshipping place for the buddhists where the worshippers attend masses and worship Buddha.
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
- 260796830
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- E Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502697459
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,235
- Expenses
- $7,219
- Assets
- $334,342
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 46.31; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2011 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- THU VAN T NGUYEN (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 2025.