Susila Dharma USA
Legal name: Susila Dharma USA Inc
Overview
Mission
Values and promotes social justice and equality through community programs that promote harmony within the cultures they serve, including health, education, and long-term community development, using participatory, locally initiated capacity-building and collaborative partnerships. Endorses capacity-building activities that are locally initiated and committed to serving local populations through interactive participation and collaborative partnerships. We view humanitarian service as participatory ─ when people give to other people, mutually transforming relationships occur. Fosters programs dedicated to social and humanitarian activities including health, education, and long-term community development. We promote activities that are visionary and creative, while also being accountable and sustainable. Maintains ongoing partnerships with member programs through personal communication...
What it reported doing in 2025
Education of children and their parents, including vocational training
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042726186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Website reviewed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Headquarters
- Bay Point, CA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The website gives limited detail about how work or grants are monitored and the website provides limited access to key policies.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
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: 1 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 20
- Impact reporting controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th 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: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 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.