Dai Giac Buddhist Temple
Overview
Mission
The exempt organization is a temple formed to primarily serve the vietnamese buddhist compmunity. The master monks teach the rule and law of buddhism, provide spritual support and perform meromial burial ceremonies to all temple members.
What it reported doing in 2024
The two head monks/officer/directors travelled all over the united statesto teach the learinng of buddhism and to bestow blessing to the vietnamese community and businesses in the states they visited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- 384008215
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7145489169
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,529
- Expenses
- $67,278
- Assets
- $416,958
- Liabilities
- $11,526
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.2; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 31.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- TU NGUYEN NGUYEN (DIRECTOR)
- THONG TINH NGUYEN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.