Chinese Buddhist Cultural Assoc USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 275167714
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Winter Park, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4076792433
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,570
- Expenses
- $218,785
- Assets
- $152,229
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chin Yau Yeh (President)
- Victor Ku (CEO)
- Chin Liu Wu (Vice President)
- Shen-Kuei Chan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Chin Yau Yeh (President)
- Lily Kung (Founder)
- Victor Ku (CEO)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Corporation is to provide Chinese Buddhist education in the form of in-class courses, video and online teaching sessions to enhance the understanding of Buddhism
What it reported doing in 2024
Donations and Miscellaneous
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -101.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.