Chua Quan Am Kansas City Buddhist Association
Overview
Mission
Religious service
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 midwest buddha birthday - we held 2025 midwest regional buddha birthday. Celebrated buddhas birthday that including preaching and chanting sutra. Provided buddhas shower ceremony. Provided buddhist ordination ceremony.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462890833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8167167910
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,354
- Expenses
- $102,115
- Assets
- $448,557
- Liabilities
- $175,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.6%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.39; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.6% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- THANH C NGUYEN (CHAIRMAN)
- BINH X NGUYEN (DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOR)
- THANH T NGUYEN (DEPUTY MINISTER OF INT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025.