Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Center
Overview
Mission
For exclusively religious purposes, to promote the Buddhist faith under the guidance of the elected General Spiritual Director (New Kadampa Tradition)through the activities of teaching, study, practice and the observance of moral discipline. To provide, manage, develop and administer facilities for teaching, study and meditation, to produce and distribute books, literature, artwork, audio and visual reproduction to support this purpose.
What it reported doing in 2020
Day/Evening Courses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263660789
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Headquarters
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.1%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 36
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.02; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.1% of revenue deployed · 36.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2011 to 2020
- 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.