Mietoville Academy
Legal name: Mietoville Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582142583
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Norcross, GA, US
- Phone
- (470) 835-7618
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,326
- Expenses
- $36,104
- Assets
- $490,846
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zuowei Zhao (President)
- Loan Lily Vuong (Vise President)
People named in this filing
- Zuowei Zhao (President)
- Loan Lily Vuong (Vise President)
- Hsiyu Shirly Peng (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
The purpose of these learning centers are for all beings to study and to focus on practicing Pure Land Buddhism which has been recognized as easy to practice but difficult to believe.
What it reported doing in 2025
We also provide free vegetarian lunch for all the participants on each Sunday and lunch and dinner for each retreat event In addition we often provides free services for on-site pray for the people who is at hisher last moment of life and experiencing hardship with dying The pray usually lasts continuously at least 8 hours or intermittently for several days We also provides free funeral services for those who received our pray service We also provide donations to homeless during the hardship winter time with clothing and food
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.6; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 29/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.