Vimutti Rasa Vipassana Association
Overview
Mission
To establish venue for the community to practice buddhism. Organize meditation retreats and hold religious services based on the burmese-buddhist calendar
What it reported doing in 2025
Organized retreats and meditation groups. Sessions were held via Zoom and in person
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
- 464272182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2014
- Headquarters
- Flushing, NY, USA
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 91
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th 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: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
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: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 75.09; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -59.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.