Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America
Overview
Mission
The mission of Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America is to facilitate education and social service activities for the spiritual practitioners in the framework of Lokadharma. The Lokadharma framework enables the practitioners to engage in social service as an outcome of their spiritual practice.
What it reported doing in 2024
Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America conducts several spiritual enablement and educational programs referred to as "integral education", and supports traditional spiritual-cultural educators generally known as gurus or acharyas who have put in decades of learning themselves. Loka Dharma Seva Foundation of America integral education produces empowered and refined practitioners who then in return engage in social service and public welfare. The activities include but are not limited to assistance to and rehabilitation of victims of domestic violence, children who lose their parents early in life, refugee resettlement, environment protection, cow protection and rescue from slaughter and help to needy war veterans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273839170
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pearland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8324993420
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,969
- Expenses
- $87,428
- Assets
- $16,953
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
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: -6.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- VENKATRAMAN S BHAVANI (Director)
- ATHAPPAN KANNAN (Director)
- RAJIV K VARMA (Director)
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 2024.