Texas Guan Yin Citta Cultural Center Inc
Overview
Mission
Promote Buddhism Culture as well as traditional Chinese
What it reported doing in 2024
Newspaper and publications
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861844440
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7134980886
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,649
- Expenses
- $45,640
- Assets
- $41,091
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
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: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7% of revenue deployed · 7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 annual filings from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- XIAOKE LI (SECRETARYDIRECTOR)
- YAN ZHUO (DIRECTOR)
- JENNIFER HUYNH (TREASURERDIRECTOR)
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 2024.