Van Phuoc Buddhist Meditation Center
Overview
Mission
Practice and teach buddhist religion
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide relogious services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843736453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Headquarters
- Brentwood, CA, USA
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: NotEnoughData
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.5%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 13
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: -70.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.77; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.5% of revenue deployed · 13.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 annual filings from 2019 to 2024
- 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.