Chinmaya Mission Buffalo Ny Inc
Legal name: Chinmaya Mission Buffalo Ny
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384298123
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- East Amherst, NY, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,340
- Expenses
- $13,953
- Assets
- $182,648
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Murali Osuraman (President)
People named in this filing
- Murali Osuraman (President)
- Nirupama Chakravarti (Treasurer)
- Reshma Samant (Seceretary)
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 main purpose of Chinmaya Mission Buffalo is to spread the knowledge on how to become better citizens of this world. Our founder Swami Chinmayananda has given lectures and written books to understand the Hindu scriptures in easy English for adults and children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Serve over 55 children by conducting scriptural classes every Sunday based on the age-groups Pre-K to Grade 12 Conduct adult scriptural study and discussion sessions Volunteering in service projects-community cooking partnering with the local church for Thanksgiving Turkey project Organize competitions and celebrate holidays with cultural significance Conducting special camps with prominent spiritual guides
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.8%; rating input score 26
- 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: 79.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.09; rating input score 94; 94th 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: -55.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 78.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 144.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 25.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.