Hue Lam Buddhist Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841656638
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Manor, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126961807
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $165,005
- Expenses
- $101,530
- Assets
- $212,985
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRUNG HAU NU THICH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TRUNG HAU NU THICH (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL KIM (SECRETARY)
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
The purpose of the Buddhist Church is to maintain a temple and spiritual center for the praying and teaching of the Buddha Dharma
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 38.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; 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: -23.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.