Lions Roar Dharma Center

Analysis

Lions Roar Dharma Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lions Roar Dharma Center reported income of $100k and spending of $124k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $121k to $100k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Lions Roar Dharma Center sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 39th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include True and Living Church of Jesuschrist ($100k), Brock Tisdale Memorial Missions Inc ($100k) and Answer the Call International ($100k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $626k against liabilities of $169k, net assets of $457k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.