Chugh Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954310125
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Cerritos, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5622291220
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,560
- Expenses
- $192,185
- Assets
- $1,204,405
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAVNEET S CHUGH (President)
People named in this filing
- NAVNEET S CHUGH (President)
- RITU K CHUGH (Secretary)
- NAVNEET S CHUGH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The objective of the Chugh Foundation has been, since inception, to help any community, any person, and any country in need and to assist with them all resources possible. The Chugh Foundation is dedicated to helping all who are affected by the long shadow that poverty casts upon the world, upon communities, and upon families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Funded for assisting the underprivileged by providing normal & job oriented education, training, shelter and healthcare to poor and handicaps in non-urban areas with the aim of social and educational upliftment of unfortunates and poor.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 42.6%; rating input score 43; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.27; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 17 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.