Buddha Jigong House of Enlightenment
Overview
Mission
Promote buddhism principles.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our fundraising activities includes our bi-monthly group practice and offerings on the 1st and 15th of each lunar calendar, where disciples will donate at will to light the candle and make offerings to buddha jigong for blessings, to accumulate merits, light our hearts with compassion and wisdom.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821989647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2022
- Headquarters
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.9%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 9
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 90.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 9.94; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.9% of revenue deployed · 8.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 20 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.