Chau Son Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364555924
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7148426420
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,390
- Expenses
- $71,057
- Assets
- $143,857
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BAO QUOC LE (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- BAO QUOC LE (President & CEO)
- JOSEPH NGUYEN (Secretary)
- PHUONG KIM TRAN (Treasurer)
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
ChauSon Foundation exists to provide substantial financial support to abbeys in VietNam
What it reported doing in 2023
The purpose of ChauSon Foundation is to support the Chau Son Cistercian Abbey in Ninh Binh, VietNam
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.4%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 1
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: 60.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -30.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.4% of revenue deployed · 0.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $637 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2023
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.