SF Dharma Collective
Legal name: San Francisco Dharma Collective
Overview
Mission
SFDC creates a welcoming and inclusive space for meditation, community, and awakening through diverse teachings and practices.
What it reported doing in 2025
Instruction in meditation techniques as well as historic and modern Buddhism. In 2025 in person events benefited 5500 attendees, virtual events benefited 3000 attemdees/
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% 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
- 833902640
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Website reviewed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and the website gives limited detail about how work or grants are monitored.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public financial transparency: 1 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 20
- Impact reporting controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 5 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.58; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.