Lotus Sea Samadhi Meditation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920696360
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rockwood, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2489770570
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,935
- Expenses
- $44,750
- Assets
- $276,658
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shaofang Yu (President)
People named in this filing
- Shaofang Yu (President)
- Jinggong He (Buddhist Teacher)
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
Propagating Buddha Dharma, help the masses enter the door of Buddha Dharma, help them know the Buddha and learn from the Buddha, help them understand the importance of upholding the precepts, guide them to practice Buddha Dharma, help them to know the truth of the universe and see through problems they encounter in their life, help them relieve their pain and go through difficulties. The organization plans to hold meditation sessions. The organization plans to organization pilgrimage trips to India when situation allows. Help those who have affinity with the Buddha to reconnect with the Buddha, to resonate with the Buddha, so they can better learn from the Buddha. The organization plans to hold seminars and workshops to introduce Buddhist Diet to the masses. The organization plans to build gardens with the help from all members/volunteers seasonally. The organization plans to hold retreats in the future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Answer questions and help with people's rising problems through emails, phones, apps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.18; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.