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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 nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472048455
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Headquarters
- El Monte, 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- 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
- 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: 2.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve 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; 18th 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.