Zen Center North Shore
Legal name: Zen North Shore
Overview
Mission
With intention and awareness, Zen Center North Shore offers refuge to all. Through the practices of zazen, self-care, and creativity, we build trust, love, and compassion for ourselves and others. We engage and affirm our humanity and honor the intersectionality of our identities and experiences. We shape our community through reflection and actions, moving towards a more racially just world rooted in the consciousness of the nature that surrounds us.
What it reported doing in 2021
To make accessbile and embody the wisdom and compassion of Buddhaas expressed in the Soto Zen Tradition
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454758700
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2021
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021
- Headquarters
- Amesbury, MA, United States
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and the website clearly identifies leaders and governance practices. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Public policy transparency: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: 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: 80.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 12.81; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.