Gujarati Heritage Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814087019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Benito, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9563614404
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,094
- Expenses
- $27,942
- Assets
- $301,426
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAJ PATEL (PRESIDENT)
- MIKE PATEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RAJ PATEL (PRESIDENT)
- MIKE PATEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROCKY PATEL (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
To seek, cultivate, and obtain revenues to be used in preserving gujarati traditions, while still recognizing the importance of cultural assimilation. We seek to expose our traditions through different functions and events, both religious and secular. Striving to be an integral part of the rio grande valley community through the participation of charitable events and civic activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Navaratri festival: raised awareness of gujarati tradition by hosting a navaratri festival; a nine day celebration in which one fasts for a day or more, prays to a symbolic clay, "garbo," as a remembrance of the womb, family, and universe, as well as participates in group dances called, garba, throughout the nine days. Event was held at the shri nanak center, a cultural temple in edinburg, Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.6%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.7%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.79; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.