Tan Long Meditation Center
Overview
Mission
To teach and assist followers in the understanding of the buddist phylosophy and to teach and assist followers how to meditate for peace and self appreciation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide spiritual and prayer assistance at funerals. Provide weekly mediation, prayer and teaching of the budda religious/human wisdom sessions.
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
- 472569216
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082029269
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,253
- Expenses
- $75,931
- Assets
- $342,296
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.7%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.51; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.7% of revenue deployed · 13.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2014 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- TUNG VO (CEO)
- LAN THI PHUONG NGUYEN (Secretary)
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 2024.