Ci Saint Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833716670
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Diamond Bar, CA, USA
Phone
9095954468
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Buddhism
Affiliation
Buddhism

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,510
Expenses
$64,076
Assets
$51,706

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHIHYUNG WILLIAM KUO (President)

People named in this filing

  • SHIHYUNG WILLIAM KUO (President)
  • MEI JUI MARY TU (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To teach attendees to reveal ones true nature and become a Buddha Maitreyas family member, to achieve a balanced life, to gain wisdom and build a harmonious family and peaceful society.To encourage members to become vegetarians, and prepare vegetarian meals.To become reborn at Buddha Maitreyas Pure Land in the next life.The main purpose of I-Kuan Tao cultivation is found in its reverence for heaven and earth: honor and adoration of all immortals, Saints, and angels in the cosmos. It springs from loyalty and truthfulness, obedience to parents, harmony with friends and neighbors, humility, honesty, pure thoughts and virtue. By pursuing the Tao, we will break down the reoccurrence of reincarnation which will allow us to enter heaven and exist in everlasting peace and serenity. The Tao enables us to continually work to develop one's innate wisdom.

What it reported doing in 2025

2025 Activity: Worship 10:30 am to 12:30 pmAchievement: There were ten new members who became a Taoist.Attendees: Around 50 Tao members.

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
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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.1%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 19

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.1% of revenue deployed · 19.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.