Harrisburg Gujarati Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842351503
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Hummelstown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,739
- Expenses
- $88,540
- Assets
- $207,939
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ronak Patel (President)
People named in this filing
- Dilip Patel (Treasurer)
- Ronak Patel (President)
- Chirag 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 propagate teachings and ideals of GujaratiHindu Religion To foster basic tenets and doctrines of Gujarati Religion within our community of greater south central Pennsylvania To celebrate auspicious events and festivals in accordance with Gujarati Religion To arrange and conduct lectures seminars religion-related education classes for children youth adults as well as other allied programs To promote and elevate spiritual awareness with harmony and unity To keep liaison with other Asian American institutionsorganizationsHARI which are based on our pattern of following rituals and practices To keep liaison with other organization within our community for harmony with respect and understanding
What it reported doing in 2025
HGACPA is a group of Gujarati Indian language speaking people of South Central Pennsylvania who have formed this organization to maintain enhance understand and appreciate Gujarati language Gujarati culture and Gujarati heritage The following activities are geared towards the above purpose Navratri This is one of the biggest and longest festival of Hindus that spans over nine nights and ten days and is celebrated every year in autumn This festival depicts a battle that took place between Goddess Durga and demon Mahishasura and celebrates the victory of Good over Evil These nine days are solely dedicated to Goddess Durga and her nine distinct avatars Gujarati people celebrate this tradition by fasting for a day or partially each of the nine days in remembrance of one of nine aspects of the Durga Shakti goddess The prayers are dedicated to a symbolic clay pot called Garbo as a remembrance of the womb of the family and universe Garbo significance is celebrated through performance arts on all the nine days The group dance popularly known as Garba is performed by live orchestra seasonal raga and devotional songs It is a folk dance where people form concentric circles around the garbo The circles can grow or shrink reaching sizes of 100s sometimes 1000s of people dancing and clapping in circular moves in their traditional costumes HGAofCPA organizes Navratri for the members each year Attendance 2630
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.35; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: 69.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 10 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.