Traveling Nunk
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881359976
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Hendersonville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5044071055
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $226,389
- Expenses
- $219,741
- Assets
- $36,506
- Liabilities
- $1,655
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENDRA HAMM (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TYSHIKA JOHNSON (SECRETARY): $3,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sangha house nola, home of traveling nunk, is a buddhist temple, meditation center, residential retreat center, and community center dedicated to collective liberation through engaged buddhist practice. We understand that inner spiritual transformation and outer compassionate service are inseparable. Through contemplative practice rooted in buddhist wisdom and other wisdom traditions, we develop the clarity and compassion to address suffering in the world. We work across three interconnected pillars: (1) contemplative educationoffering dharma study, meditation practice, spiritual direction, and residential retreats that awaken fierce sincerity and wisdom (2) well-being and collective careproviding food relief, mutual aid, healing circles, crisis support, and sanctuary for all impacted by systemic inequities and (3) regenerative ecosystemsbuilding cooperative social enterprises[: comma
What it reported doing in 2025
Monastery, temple & contemplative education: sangha house nola operates as a multi-lineage buddhist monastery and temple dedicated to the study and practice of the timeless wisdom of buddhism. This program provides a sanctuary and living space for monastics, ordained and lay practitioners, and visitors seeking contemplative refuge. 3040 weekly practitioners (75 repeat participation) participant feedback on spiritual clarity and practice depth quality of daily contemplative practice garden yield and freedom library circulation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.6%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 70%; rating input score 70; 0th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.6% of revenue deployed · 38.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 23 current checks pass · 5 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX AllOtherExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Travel column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.