Blue Lotus Buddhist Meditation Center Inc Florida
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352365405
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Venice, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9412808157
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,277
- Expenses
- $36,085
- Assets
- $495,525
- Liabilities
- $309,162
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- San Thawalanthanne (Vice President)
- Kathrynn King (President)
People named in this filing
- CHANDASIRI THUMBAGE (ABBOT SANGA PATRON)
- San Thawalanthanne (Vice President)
- Jim PIEKARSKI (Director)
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. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Blue Lotus Buddhist Meditation Center (BLBMC) is a small meditation community offering meditation and mindfulness training, as well as other classes such as Yoga, Sound Healing, and book studies, to promote inner peace and compassion for all beings.
What it reported doing in 2025
Religion: Conducted regular Buddhist meditation sessions, Dharma talks, study groups, retreats, and religious observances to support the practice and understanding of Buddhist teachings. Programs were open to the public and provided opportunities for spiritual development, mindfulness, ethical living, and community fellowship. Community outreach includes sessions at local libraries for meditation and healing bowls. Serving 2600 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.3%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 17.1%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.73; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.3% of revenue deployed · 17.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.