Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America

Overview

Mission

The mission of Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America is to facilitate education and social service activities for the spiritual practitioners in the framework of Lokadharma. The Lokadharma framework enables the practitioners to engage in social service as an outcome of their spiritual practice.

What it reported doing in 2024

Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America conducts several spiritual enablement and educational programs referred to as "integral education", and supports traditional spiritual-cultural educators generally known as gurus or acharyas who have put in decades of learning themselves. Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America integral education produces empowered and refined practitioners who then in return engage in social service and public welfare. The activities include but are not limited to assistance to and rehabilitation of victims of domestic violence, children who lose their parents early in life, refugee resettlement, environment protection, cow protection and rescue from slaughter and help to needy war veterans.

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 nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273839170
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Headquarters
Pearland, TX, USA
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Affiliation
Buddhism

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: NotEnoughData
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Public monitoring controls: Limited
  • Public policy transparency: Limited
  • Public financial transparency: Limited
  • Impact reporting controls: Limited
  • Public relationship transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Public governance controls: Limited
  • Zakat policy transparency: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Operating reserve ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th 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: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.