Sakyadhita Hawaii
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911934279
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Waialua, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8585255163
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,563
- Expenses
- $296,183
- Assets
- $48,926
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Karma Lekshe Tsomo (President)
- Dr Margaret Coberly (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jane Keiko Agena Nagai (Treasurer)
- Dr Karma Lekshe Tsomo (President)
- Dr Margaret Coberly (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lai Community Peace Center is a community resource center offering education and training in nonviolence, compassion, and wisdom. The Center based on Buddhist principles of nonharm, ethical conduct, compassion, loving kindness, and wisdom, as well as values of gender equity and appreciation of cultural diversity. Programs include training in meditation, conflict resolution, peace leadership and empowerment, and non-violent communications skills. Programs in mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, food cultures, and wellness benefit all sectors of the community, with some programs designed especially for woman and children. The vision of Sakyadhita Hawaii is to establish Lai Peace Center on five acres of landin Waialua, on the island of Oahu. Classes, workshops, and retreats in mindfulness, healing arts, Buddhist studies, and world religions are offered to the community throughout the year.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sakyadhita Hawai'i provided education and training in sustainable agriculture for children and adults, instruction in nourishing native species, mindful gardening, planting trees, planting and harvesting organic vegetables, soil analysis, grafting, irrigation systems, agricultural technologies, and so on, for many community groups.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
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: -120.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $291K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.