United Buddhist Foundation
Overview
Mission
For the purposes and principles set out, the United Buddhist Foundation will take the appropriate direction of action from time to time, so that it is always in line with the guiding principles of the Foundation and has the highest efficiency in achieving its goals. Mr. Trương Ngãi Vinh said that, as a Protestant, he welcomed the meeting to support the activities that can promote the nation, and must be wary of strangers to insert in the long run. Special features: The youngest activist in Trần Nhân Tông Club is Minh Tâm, a top singer who is able to sing the most difficult songs with three different local voices of South, North and Central Viet Nam. The show performed by Minh Tam at the meeting showed that it was a surprise to have a better vocal than many professional singers. You can find out more about Trần Nhân Tông Club through:.
What it reported doing in 2025
(1) Publishing 32 books in the year 2023, free distribution and also available for POD global system. (2) Online Buddhist community increasing up to more than 9500 members who attended at https://unitedbuddhist.org/ with about 3200 viewer daily (3) Translating 2 Buddhist sutras with about 1,500 pages from ancient Chinese into Vietnamese. (4) Reproduced 14 very old Buddhist books (50 - 80 years ago) and made it available (reprinting version) to everyone who need to study.
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
- 471420906
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Headquarters
- Westminster, CA, United States
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The website clearly identifies leaders and governance practices and 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: 64
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
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
- 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: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2016 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.