Wat Buddha Mongkol of Houston
Overview
Mission
Buddhist Temple of Faith - Open to all faith Create and foster consistent and accurage understanding of Secular Buddhist teaching and Practice
What it reported doing in 2017
Donations
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 99% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472627204
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2017
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 62
- 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st 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: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.54; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2015 to 2017
- 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.