The International Center of Chinese Buddhist Culture & Education USA
Overview
Mission
The primary purpose of this organization is to reintroduce Buddha's teaching to enhance the community's morality, spirituality and responsibility by emphasizing His core values. It is also the purpose of the Organization to educate its followers with the objectives of inheriting the legacy of the historical Buddha, and advancing and enriching quintessential teachings of traditional Chinese Buddhist patriarchs.
What it reported doing in 2018
Buddhist community outreach through meetings to spread the teachings of Buddha.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
- 471704467
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Headquarters
- Monterey Park, CA, USA
- Rating
- 33
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
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: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -89.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.61; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -42.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- 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: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2014 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.