Karen Buddhist Society of New York
Overview
Mission
To preserve and promote the Karen Buddhist tradition and provide a spiritual community for Karen Buddhists in New York.
What it reported doing in 2018
To provide worship and other religious services
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
- 812703188
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2018
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Headquarters
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
- This form does not report enough financial and governance detail to rate the organization. That is normal for this form and is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 40
- Sustainability: 94
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 2 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 40
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 2,056.05; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 195.4% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 80.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2016 to 2018
- 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.