Sacred Virtue Way Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921519790
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Flushing, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9296091052
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $177,492
- Expenses
- $10,694
- Assets
- $495,984
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lotus King Weiss (President)
- Deok Seop Shim (President and Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Lotus King Weiss (President)
- Deok Seop Shim (President and Treasurer)
- Ho Man Chung (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
Sacred Virtue Way Institute Inc has the primary exempt purpose of delivering moral education to the general public, especially Mothers and children. To accomplish the goal, we are focusing upon the creation of moral education matierals, such as textbooks, moral educaton videos and audios. In addition, we will carry out scientific research projects to validate the impact of our moral education programs on improving human health at the molecular level. We establish a community-based moral classroom where daily public education is delivered. We build a public website to reach out to local community members. We host conferences to bring community leaders, education experts and scientific researchers together to promote morality in the human society. All these activities requires public donations and government grants to operate. Thus, we will need the status of 501c3 to accomplish this important project.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. In 2025, Sacred Virtue Way Institute continues to deliver daily community services and public educations to the local communities and to general public. 2. The Whole Elephant Institute continues to support the Sacred Virtue Way Institute's daily operation and actively develop community service projects. 3. Sacred Virtue Way Institute continues to receive supports from community members in many different ways, including fund donations and goods donations and valuable suggestions and feedback. 4. Sacred Virtue Way Institute continues to train new team members to fulfill the sacred mission: Bring Light to Dark Human Society; Bring Order to the Chaotic Human World; Eradicate Human Evil Thoughts. 5. Sacred Virtue Way Institute has actively reached out to local public schools, school leaders, teachers , students and parents to rectify the public school education approaches; 6. Sacred Virtue Way Institute launched the New York State Downtown Revitalization Initiatives programs and is actively seeking community support and government founding for these programs. 7. Sacred Virtue Way Institute continues to produce reels, videos, and trilingual texts for public education through social media platforms. 8. Sacred Virtue Way Institute continues to maintain and publish updates on our institutional website: www.svwi.org
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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6%; rating input score 6
- 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: 94%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 46.38; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.