Bay Area Kural Koodam
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823741026
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Union City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106849019
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,215
- Expenses
- $26,549
- Assets
- $41,244
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THIRUMUDI THULASIRAMAN (President)
People named in this filing
- THIRUMUDI THULASIRAMAN (President)
- VISHNU MULLIAPPA (Secretary)
- HARIHARAN KANDASAMY (Treasurer)
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
THE ORGANIZATION WAS FORMED TO PROMOTE "Thirukkural", an ancient literary work written in classical ancient language "Tamil" by a poet named "Thiruvalluvar". The organization's mission is to promote "Thirukkural" that gives the parents an opportunity to interact with their children and teach them the moral values emphasized by "Thirukkural and make them productive members of the society.
What it reported doing in 2025
We conduct Thirukkural Potti each year. The kids recite couplets and for each correct one they recited they receive a cash prize.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
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: 28.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 76.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.