Mp Prajna Buddhist Mission Inc
Overview
Mission
The organization is to promote the spirit of the chinese culture through wisdom to provide an opportunity for everyone to learn to be good.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization welcomes people from all over to pray for good luck, health & happiness in many of their event activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
- 472277173
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Headquarters
- Monterey Park, CA, USA
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.5%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 30
- 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: 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
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 31.5% of revenue deployed · 29.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.