Buddhist Recovery Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262127441
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2023
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
4155175856
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Buddhism
Affiliation
Buddhism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,476
Expenses
$9,510
Assets
$86,931
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robin Smith (President)
  • Vanessa Wang (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Robin Smith (President)
  • Vanessa Wang (Vice President)
  • Calico Cook (Secretary)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Buddhist Recovery Network promotes the use of Buddhist teachings and practices to help people recover from the suffering caused by addictive behaviors and is open to people of all backgrounds, and respectful of all recovery paths.

What it reported doing in 2023

Safer Sanghas: In 2023, we held internal and community discussions of what makes a Buddhist Recovery meeting or group a safe space to practice in. Using the core intentions of healing, growth, compassion, interconnectedness and contemplative practices, we envisioned what would make Buddhist Recovery community meetings, events and other gatherings more diverse, equitable, inclusive, accessible and safe from bias and misconduct. We hired a Program Consultant who documented our work, we researched existing trainings we could connect community members to, and created resource lists to be shared on our new website. We began the first year of planning for our biannual Summit, establishing its date, location and early programming ideas. We planned for sharing these Safer Sanghas materials at the upcoming Summit, to offer a Safer Sanghas workshop there, as well as to offer them as an online resource.

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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 37
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.1%; rating input score 10
  • Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 88%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.14; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 10.1% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.