The Wonderful Garden Buddhist Meditation Center Corporation
Overview
Mission
Religious organization to teach and practice buddhism
What it reported doing in 2023
We hold lectures & prayers on weekly schedules and special events to more than 5o members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- 273027851
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Auburn, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7705729658
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,639
- Expenses
- $55,466
- Assets
- $18,548
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 56.8%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 56.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K 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: 9 annual filings from 2013 to 2023
- 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 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023.