Buddhist Social Services Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203358821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Garden Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7148754176
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $248,767
- Expenses
- $204,566
- Assets
- $1,682,470
- Liabilities
- $350,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anh Dao Luu (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Anh Dao Luu (CEO)
- Binh Quoc Luu (Secretary)
- Loan Nguyen (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Monastery is the Vietnamese Buddhist temple. The organization serves the Vietnamese-American and Buddhist communities with visions focused on Buddhism and are committed in the preservation of the Vietnamese cultural heritage.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.22; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $184K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.