Alliance for Humanitarian Initiatives Non Violence & Spiritual Advancement Aka Ahinsa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932907047
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Jefferson Hills, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4124067477
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,884
- Expenses
- $6,729
- Assets
- $86,293
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Som Sharma (President)
- Ravi Sharma (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Som Sharma (President)
- Ravi Sharma (Vice President)
- Manzoor Mohideen (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alliance for Humanitarian Initiatives Non Violence & Spiritual Advancement (aka AHINSA) vision is to create a peaceful global community where nonviolence, spiritual growth, and humanitarian action inspire a culture of compassion, empathy, respect, and harmony. AHINSA's mission is: To promote nonviolence as a way of life, and as a chosen method for resolving conflicts; Through education, training, and service activities based on the principles held by Mahatma Gandhi and other non-violence philosophy supporting leaders, to promote: peace, equality, and justice; and mutual appreciation, understanding, and respect between different cultural, ethnic, and religious groups
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted Music for Peace Concert and Fundraiser on September 7 2025 featuring Grammy Award winners Chandrika Tandon and her musical ensemble along Marty Ashby and his Jazz band at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, This inspiring collaboration is a fundraiser for AHINSA, a multi-cultural, multi-faith nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting peace and nonviolence since 2000. About 420 people attended this musical performance and fundraiser
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.9%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 89.3%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.82; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.