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VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER

VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,700 to it, the largest being THE HEART OF GOD THIEN TAM FOUNDATION ($66,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$0
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$249k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Vietnamese Buddhist Center does

Mission

Advocate and spread the buddhist religion

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assist some temples and monks to advocate buddhist culture

    $25,311 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,311.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 19 ($25k) Net assets 887 ($249k)
20192024
Revenue (0)Expenses (19)Net assets (887)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$28k
$327k
20192024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,623 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’19
−$25k
’24
0.3
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER's revenue fell 100% between 2019 and 2024.

Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER?
VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,700 to it, the largest being THE HEART OF GOD THIEN TAM FOUNDATION ($66,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $66,700 in grants to VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER?
THE HEART OF GOD THIEN TAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing