Susila Dharma USA
Legal name: Susila Dharma USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042726186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Livermore, CA, USA
- Phone
- 559-731-2962
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,338
- Expenses
- $108,226
- Assets
- $29,112
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Clark (President)
- Michael Barber (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Clark (President)
- Michael Barber (Vice President)
- Lucas Boladian (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
Values and promotes social justice and equality through community programs that promote harmony within the cultures they serve, including health, education, and long-term community development, using participatory, locally initiated capacity-building and collaborative partnerships. Endorses capacity-building activities that are locally initiated and committed to serving local populations through interactive participation and collaborative partnerships. We view humanitarian service as participatory ─ when people give to other people, mutually transforming relationships occur. Fosters programs dedicated to social and humanitarian activities including health, education, and long-term community development. We promote activities that are visionary and creative, while also being accountable and sustainable. Maintains ongoing partnerships with member programs through personal communication...
What it reported doing in 2025
Education of children and parents, including vocational training
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
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: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th 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: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.