Harmony Amitabha Buddhist Association
Overview
Mission
Promote the study of Buddhism to the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Regular weekly Sunday study and chanting of Buddhism to the public from 1pm to 4:30pm the last Sunday of each month from 9am to 5pm. Regular weekly online group chanting of Buddhism to the public. Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30pm to 9:40pm
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
- 822491464
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2022
- Headquarters
- Cupertino, CA, USA
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 98
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 60
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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 54th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th 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: 88.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 24.76; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 42 current checks pass · 7 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 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
- 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.