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 nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462890833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
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
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- 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
- 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: 18.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.39; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 10; 10th 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.