Muyeum and Zen Center
Overview
Mission
Spiritual studies based on the word of Buddha Missionary
What it reported doing in 2025
Spiritual studies based on the word of Buddha Missionary activity
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842906250
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9735631985
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,850
- Expenses
- $99,063
- Assets
- $346,594
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.5%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.5; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.5% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2019 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- SUNG JOO KIM (PRESIDENT)
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.