The Light of Buddha Sasana Vihara USA
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
Teaching the general public the philosophy of buddhism and performing buddhist ceremonies. Also providing a place for the general public to pray and pay respect to the buddha.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
- 352349710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Website checked
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- El Monte, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
- This form does not report enough financial and governance detail to rate the organization. That is normal for this form and is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 94
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 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
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 85.7%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 17.27; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2012 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.