American Buddhist Association Pu Tuo Temple Inc
Overview
Mission
Religious purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275131775
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Rating
- 60
- 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.2%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 4th 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 3.2; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.2% of revenue deployed · 41.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 13 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2014 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.