Empty Cloud Sangha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813793918
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2692178048
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,259
- Expenses
- $43,150
- Assets
- $30,311
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONI BENNETT (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RONDA REITZ (PRESIDENT)
- MEGAN HINES (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RANDY WOLBERT (DIRECTOR AND AUTHORIZED TEACHER)
- JONI BENNETT (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RONDA REITZ (PRESIDENT)
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
Provide training and retreats
What it reported doing in 2025
5-day silent retreat sesshins for the training and practice of zen mindfulness and to cultivate awareness of and experience of the tradition. 207 individuals attended events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.