Dallas Meditation Center
Legal name: One Dharma Awakening Heart Dallas Meditation Center
Overview
Mission
To encourage the fulfillment of our vision: We offer a safe, welcoming, creative community for the practice of mindfulness; we teach the practices and skills necessary for any person to experience the joy of mindful living; we host meditation, educational, and wellness programs that transform individuals, their relationships, and the greater community; we practice creative arts to experience the present moment and promote Self-expression.
What it reported doing in 2025
Meditation services and life-enrichment classes
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
- 463512018
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Richardson, TX, United States
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- 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 the website provides limited evidence of results.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- 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: Limited
- 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: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.52; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.