Giac Son Buddhist Temple
Overview
Mission
This is a buddhist temple-purpose is to help people in need-and the community as a whole. The community as a whole, while leading and guilding people buddhist practices and religious ideas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Active in community service-muliple programs to assist the needy-both phyiscally as well as spiritually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472478154
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Laurel, MD, USA
- Rating
- 77
- 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 filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.13; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $438K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2018 to 2025
- 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.