Pasadena Buddhist Temple
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952251767
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, United States
- Phone
- (626) 798-4781
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $222,458
- Expenses
- $219,738
- Assets
- $834,805
- Liabilities
- $43,690
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jean Toshima (President)
- Lori Hatakeyama (President)
- Cathy Mikuni (Vice President)
- Alan Goto (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jean Toshima (President)
- Lori Hatakeyama (President)
- Cathy Mikuni (Vice 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Pasadena Buddhist Temple welcomes everyone and anyone who would like to learn more about the Buddha's message of compassion, inclusion, and being caring and mindful of others. Joya-e is the last service of the year. Those who come to the temple on Jan. 31st between 5-6PM will help ring our temple bell 108 times. Watch Rev. Gibb's Joya-e message here on YouTube when you get home or before you come to ring the bell. The video includes a short slideshow of events of 2020 and the temple grounds and Invisible Teahouse events. | | []( []( []( "Sensei kept track of the number of "hits"...made it to 108.") []( "Soba prepared by Kyoko.") |.
What it reported doing in 2024
Services: The Temple organizations provide meals for local seniors and community members several times a year.The Temple organizes food and clothing drives to provide support for our local un-housed community members.The Temple establishes several fundraising activities to make donations to other organizations in need (i.e. Maui wildfire)We mail a newsletter to our Temple membership and friends 6-times a year and send out an eBlast weekly with updated information and reminders.Our Womens Group supports our home-bound sangha members by calling or sending greeting cards.In case of a death, the Temple provides support to the family to help them organize and plan for a funeral service. Our minister visits persons in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices looking for comfort. Most of these visits come from phone calls from people previously not associated with the temple.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.8; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $159K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.