American Bodhi Center Inc
Overview
Mission
American bodhi center is a multifunctional retreat center that promotes peace, mindfulness, and the sharing of buddhist culture and ideas between the chinese-american and other communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Qing Ming Festival provides memorial services for deceased. In Buddhism, other than remembering and honoring ancestors, it teaches people to accumulate the goodwill for afterlife.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 91% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861124079
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.5%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 12
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 10.78; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.5% of revenue deployed · 12.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 annual filings from 2018 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.