The Wat Lao American Buddhist Cente
Overview
Mission
Assist Laotian families adapting in US.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promote and facilitate provision of assistance to Laotian NC families helping them adapt to life in the US.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562262423
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- High Point, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3368610239
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,762
- Expenses
- $50,312
- Assets
- $293,300
- Liabilities
- $38,276
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.83; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- NANH MORGAN (PRESIDENT)
- PHONE MONTRY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- THOUNGVILLE PHARYOM (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.