Tu Viện Phước ĐứC
Legal name: Phuoc Duc Buddhist Cultural Center Inc
Overview
Mission
The Center is a non-profit organization providing religous services to the public
What it reported doing in 2025
Serving the nearby Buddhist community exellence religous events through the year.
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 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260888684
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.7; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 41% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $436K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2016 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.