International Hua-Yan Buddhist Federation
Legal name: The International Hua-yan Buddhist Federation
Overview
Mission
To spread the buddha principles by using plain everyday language and examples to infuse compassion and wisdom of the buddhism into people's hearts and make our society more harmonious and the world more peaceful. Buddha meditations to achieve stress relief with compassionate heart and obtain permanent happiness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Held regular buddha classes and seminars to teach compassion and kindness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472094590
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Headquarters
- College Point, NY, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices and the website provides limited evidence of results.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
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: 3 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -56.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 8.66; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -57.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -59.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2023 to 2024
- 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.