Tong Jue Si
Overview
Mission
The mission of this organization is to promote buddhim and buddhism education
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote buddhism and buddhism education
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
- 842053188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Headquarters
- Alhambra, CA, USA
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.3%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 14
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 15.07; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.3% of revenue deployed · 13.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.