Mission West Foundation
Overview
Mission
Buddhism
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 4 grants totaling $165,000. The stated grant purposes included support medical procedures, support medical center, and support religious organization, plus 1 other reported purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. The foundation's positive operating resources came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461676307
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-PF 2024
- Headquarters
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 63
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 45
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 63; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 16.68; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 45th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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.