Dieu Nhan Buddhist Med Ass Inc
Overview
Mission
This is the main place where the monks, followers in the neighborhood and youth come to workship, to learn the buddhist teaching and principles, to cultivate the communication skills by practicing right speech and deep listening to perform meditation so that it is easy to forgive, to embrace, to care and sacrifice and to compassionate.
What it reported doing in 2025
Donation general
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- 450492755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Website checked
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Rescue, CA, USA
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - 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 voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.6%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- 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
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 29.9; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.6% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $119K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2016 to 2025
- 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.