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Overview
Mission
Hosting weekly chanting service as the fundamental practice of buddhist meditation designed for people interested in learning ancient buddhist practice and healing techniques, and wanting to integrate it into their daily routine for better health and better living.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472048455
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- El Monte, CA, USA
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,476
- Expenses
- $54,036
- Assets
- $48,053
- Liabilities
- $29,618
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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.8%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.8% of revenue deployed · 3.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOE CHIT HWANG (President & CEO)
- HONG CHAN SHI (Secretary)
- CHUYEE HWANG (CFO)
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.