Dharma Civilization Foundation
Legal name: Dharma Civilization Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
We’re a US-based non-profit organization on a mission to decode, simplify and contextualize Dharma for your life. We hope these Dharmic solutions ease your daily personal, professional and societal life and help you find purpose. धारयति इति धर्म:|. Organizing academic conferences to provide a platform for presentation of Indic thoughts and foster interaction among scholars Book Competition Conducting competitions to promote exposure to and reading of Indic books.
What it reported doing in 2024
To establish the systematic academic study of dharma, its interpretation and application through the creation of academic and intellectual infrastructure and institutions.
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 83% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455428131
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Headquarters
- Brea, CA, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2.73; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.