International Buddha Dharma Society for Cosmic Laws
Overview
Mission
Propagate Buddha Dharma; Lead meditation sessions; advocate buddhist diet; guide people to practice Buddha Dharma; answer questions through emails and phones about Buddha Dharma.
What it reported doing in 2025
Continued to provide weekly Buddha Dharma talks and meditation sessions to the public. Due to the pandemic, the weekly Dharma talks have been given on internet, the organization's website and youtube channels. Communicate with disciples, answer their questions and guide their cultivation. Review their articles and help them from many aspects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463923266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Davisburg, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2489770570
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,636
- Expenses
- $85,471
- Assets
- $279,039
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.26; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -26.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Shengli Yuan (Buddhist Teacher)
- Jinhua Zhou (Buddha Dharma & Buddhist Cuisine Teacher)
- Shaofang Yu (President)
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.