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 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
- 061416922
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Britain, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8606120077
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,768
- Expenses
- $95,898
- Assets
- $425,263
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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- 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
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage 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; 51st 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Vu T Nguyen (President)
- Bach Bang (Vice President)
- Thanh-Van T Bang (Treasurer)
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.