Vien Minh Buddhist Temples in California Us
Overview
Mission
To support, advance, propapagate, and preserve the teaching, practice and study of the Buddhist religion
What it reported doing in 2025
Fundraising events and personal solicitations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800572936
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Headquarters
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 33
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 12.24; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- 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.