Dorje Trangpo Charity Organization
Overview
Mission
Dorje trangpo charity organization was organized to establish and oversee places of fellowship, to provide teaching to other members, to conduct charitable activities in the community, and to license and oversee teachers spreading the buddhist message.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide and preserve buddhist instructions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275343584
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Headquarters
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.5%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.27; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.5% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.