Vietnamese Buddhist Cultural Center
Overview
Mission
Temple/Religious Organization
What it reported doing in 2025
TET and Other Vietnamese Celebrations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- 562298481
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9715062866
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,754
- Expenses
- $30,589
- Assets
- $187,111
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. 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: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.6%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.12; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.6% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2017 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- THU HA NGUYEN (President)
- DIEN LIEU (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 2025.