Vietnam Buddhist Center Inc Phap Am Monastery
Overview
Mission
Religious organization to propagate buddhism
What it reported doing in 2025
We hold lectures & prayers on weekly schedules and specialevents to about 30+ members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455425199
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Austell, GA, USA
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.41; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 annual filings from 2020 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.