Choe Khor Ling Foundation Inc
Overview
Mission
The oranization provides outreach ministry program that preaches and teaches the mahayana path of buddhism while also provides benevolent assistance to individuals and families in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
The oranization provides outreach ministry program that preaches and teaches the mahayana path of buddhism and valuable life lessions. This is accomplished through online dharma teachings, a nyungne retreat, and providing a place of sanctuary with flowers and light offerings. The organization also provides benevolent assistance to those in need in the community as part of the outtreach ministry
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824412436
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9253894436
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,476
- Expenses
- $96,089
- Assets
- $135,732
- Liabilities
- $3,308
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.5%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.5% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- LONG DANG (President)
- CHAU AN LUONG (Secretary)
- GIANG SAMMY (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025.