San Francisco Falun Buddha Study Association
Overview
Mission
Serve to foster the universal principles and values of "truthfulness, compassion and tolerance" through various forms including falun dafa (falun gona) studies, exercises and experience sharing activities, as well as other relevant spiritual, cultural and artistic events.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide ancient classic chinese dancing show, shenyun performing arts, to a large audience: these shows reflect traditional chinese art and value: and these shows reflect universal principles and values of "truthful, compassion and tolerant".
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 99% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453139327
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.37; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.