Tu an Zen Temple Association
Overview
Mission
Promote and conduct buddhist workship
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide spiritual guidance to buddhist workship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- 330416848
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7143839833
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,761
- Expenses
- $84,693
- Assets
- $1,704,727
- Liabilities
- $92,590
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.13; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2012 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- HAI THANH TRAN (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.