Paramita Buddhist Monastery
Overview
Mission
To promote Buddhist spiritual growth and cultural preservation through religious services, while providing global humanitarian aid, emergency disaster relief, and educational support to underserved communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided emergency food, clean water, and temporary shelterto approximately 982 families displaced by regional flooding in Vietnam.
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 96% of its reported program spending out as grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824863198
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Headquarters
- Stockton, CA, USA
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.68; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $138K 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: 6 annual filings from 2019 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.