Shaolin Temple USA
Overview
Mission
A team of Shaolin Temple Kung Fu Monks now stations at Shaolin Temple USA to carry on the 1,500-year old traditions and training disciplines of Shaolin Temple. Their mission is to share Shaolin Culture with the American People. Shaolin Temple USA teaches Shaolin Chan Zen philosophy through the core Shaolin disciplines of martial arts or action meditation: Kung Fu Gongfu and Chi Kung Qiqong.
What it reported doing in 2024
Teaching Tuition Income
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651318473
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Fremont, CA, USA
- Rating
- 64
- 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 voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.12; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $380K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.