Phap Bao Temple
Legal name: Phap Bao Buddist Temple
Overview
Mission
To help others build a lasting partnership with Buddhism, engaging in an incredible journey with the Buddhism.
What it reported doing in 2025
The temple opens to the public and members for religious and social events all year long.
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
- 473297107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Headquarters
- Mission, TX, US
- 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 filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and the website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 25
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 99
- 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: 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Public governance controls: 1 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.93; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 74.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $241K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 annual filings from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.