Watt Dhamma Raingsei Buddhist Temple of Memphis
Overview
Mission
Religious organizatrion: buddhist temple serving 150 families in memphis. Buddhist monks lead weekly prayers and counsel.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program related
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
- 621780201
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 11.93; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 annual filings from 2020 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.