Vietnamese American Buddhist A
Overview
Mission
Held reguularservices for congregation to learn about Buddha philosphy and also teaching followers to understand Buddhist religion
What it reported doing in 2025
Practice Buddhist religion. It is a way of life in purifying of mind
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
- 813388402
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Headquarters
- Haverhill, MA, USA
- Rating
- 66
- 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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- 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: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2022 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.