Huong Lien Temple
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
Religious events and services throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 94% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862271254
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 4.07; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 180.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -47.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 17 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 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.