Sakyamuni Buddhist Meditation Association
Overview
Mission
To provide spiritual guidance and conduct religious services
What it reported doing in 2025
Sakyamuni buddhist meditation association is a religious organization to promote spiritual guidance for members and conduct religious services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330321021
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Riverside, CA, USA
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
REVIEW - Most voting board members are independent and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 16th 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: 3 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 16.23; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2010 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.