Drikung Meditation Center
Legal name: Drikung Meditation Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043459087
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Danvers, MA, USA
- Phone
- (339) 368 5740
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,378
- Expenses
- $45,886
- Assets
- $490,275
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOTTY SPOOR (President)
People named in this filing
- DOTTY SPOOR (President)
- HOWARD FASS (Treasurer)
- DAVID TUCKER (CLERK)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Drikung Meditation Center offers Tibetan Buddhist teachings, practices, and retreats in the Boston area, under the guidance of its spiritual director Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam, with a mission to serve the community in a spirit of loving kindness and foster understanding between all religions, cultures, and people.
What it reported doing in 2020
Program service accomplishments - provision of teachings and meditation opportunitites to the public from meditation masters of the tibetan buddhist tradition; tibetan language lessons; and education and resources about buddhism, meditation techniques, and the tibetan buddhist culture.
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 99% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.6%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.68; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 34.6% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.