Mipham Shedra
Overview
Mission
Buddhist religious service and education
What it reported doing in 2017
Meditation instructionteachings from tibetan textstibetan buddhist prayer and ritualtranslation of tibetan liturgical and philisophical textslanguage and cultural instruction
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562458121
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Headquarters
- Broomfield, CO, USA
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and officer pay is high relative to total spending.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.9%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; 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: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.23; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.9% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2011 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.