Buddhist Association of Connecticut
Overview
Mission
Provide training and practicing buddhism to Vietnamese and English-speaking community
What it reported doing in 2025
Special events spending (Lunar new year, Buddhas birthday, Ghost Festival, Mid Autum Festival, Wandering Souls Day etc...)
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 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061416922
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Website checked
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- New Britain, CT, USA
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. The website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 36.8%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd 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: 5.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.43; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 36.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2021 to 2025
- 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.