Camlo Buddhist Community Center
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
The organization organized religious events such as the lunar new year buddha birthday vulan festival during the year. Held weekly events for members praying and chanting buddha.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352427888
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.24; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $225K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 16 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2017 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.