Virginia Buddhist Association
Overview
Mission
Spiritual guidance
What it reported doing in 2025
To serve as spiritural guidance the local & national commutity as a whole.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
- 273407269
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Glen Allen, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8042447578
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,020
- Expenses
- $45,695
- Assets
- $172,850
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -20.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.78; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 58.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2018 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MINH-THUY THI VU (DIRECTOR)
- PHILANA PHAM (TREASURER)
- HEN VAN LIEU (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.