Supreme Master Ching Hai Intl Assoc Los Angeles Center

Analysis

Supreme Master Ching Hai Intl Assoc Los Angeles Center is a registered charity in United States, based in El Monte, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Supreme Master Ching Hai Intl Assoc Los Angeles Center reported income of $482k and spending of $394k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $1.1m to $482k (-56%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Supreme Master Ching Hai Intl Assoc Los Angeles Center sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Missions Unlimited Inc ($482k), Little Samaritan Mission ($483k) and Alliance of Idaho Inc ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $109, net assets of $1.1m.