Dharma Seed Tape Library Inc
Overview
Mission
Distribute teachings on insight meditation
What it reported doing in 2024
Record, archive and distribute teachings on insight meditation. The teachings, which are freely offered over the internet and on the dharmaseed.org website, are available to people worldwide to download, stream and make personal copies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
- 042824116
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Greenfield, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4132225002
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,417
- Expenses
- $154,585
- Assets
- $201,511
- Liabilities
- $305
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
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: -12.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2015 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- NANCEE BERSHOF (PRESIDENT)
- LAURIE PHILLIPS (TREASURER)
- CHRIS TALBOTT (CLERK)
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.