Tibetan Buddhist Charitable Aid
Overview
Mission
The charitable corporation was created to help support the ongoing humanitarian projects initiated and directed by geshe pema dorjee. These projects are located in improverished and/or remote areas of himalayan india and nepal.
What it reported doing in 2025
Elderly and handicapped people support
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800550227
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9177976720
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,635
- Expenses
- $11,056
- Assets
- $8,055
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2017 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- CAROL MACKAUF (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN MACKAUF (SECRETARY/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.