Columbus Tamil Sangam
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202567423
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Lewis Center, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142868132
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,570
- Expenses
- $45,732
- Assets
- $108,909
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lavaniya Srinivasaraghavan (President)
People named in this filing
- Lavaniya Srinivasaraghavan (President)
- Nirmala Natarajan (Secretary)
- Sathish Babu Ramachandran (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
Columbus Tamil Sangam was founded to Serve and Promote Tamil and Tamil Culture to the Tamil Speaking Community of Columbus and its surrounding areas. To foster and promote Tamil Language, literature, values, traditions, culture and art. To provide a secular, non-sectarian and non-profit literacy organization for all Tamils living in and around Central Ohio. To provide a forum to the younger generation to participate in literary and cultural programs and to showcase their talents. To host events involving Tamil scholars and artists from around the globe for the benefit of Tamils residing in Central Ohio and surrounding regions. To organize events by cooperating and coordinating with other Asian/Indian/Regional organizations with similar objectives
What it reported doing in 2025
Thamilar thirunaal, Chithirai Thirunal cultural event and Summer picnic - these events served as a cultural platform to showcase local community talent and promote Tamil heritage. Number of persons benefited: approximately 600 community members attended and participated in each event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.38; rating input score 69; 69th 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: -26.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.