Northern California Bodhi Dharma Society
Overview
Mission
The Northern California Bodhi Dharma Society seeks to help others pursue the fundamental objectives of innate healing, mindfulness, and inner peace by teaching select and effective meditation techniques to the public. The Organization seeks to serve and benefit the community by teaching and promoting meditation as a tool for improved mental and physical health within individuals and the society at large. The Society provides an active and peaceful learning environment and offers education meditation materials, retreats, and drop in sessions to students from all backgrounds and all corners of the globe. It is the mission of the Society to educate and support others in their journey towards self-development, spirituality, and freedom from suffering, to promote harmony, and to contribute to a more compassionate and peaceful society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Teaching of meditation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
- 471623881
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Milpitas, CA, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.77; rating input score 61; 61st 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 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.