Hindu Temple & Cultural Center Orangeburg SC
Legal name: Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Orangeburg South Carolina
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562636528
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orangeburg, SC, USA
- Phone
- 5516892491
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $902,449
- Expenses
- $817,954
- Assets
- $2,578,306
- Liabilities
- $72,285
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BIPIN PATEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KIRITBHAI MEHTA (SECRATARY)
- DINESH PATEL (VICE PRESIDE)
- PANKAJBHAI J PATEL (KITCHEN HEAD)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide facilities for religious, spiritual, and cultural activities to understand and enhance the knowledge of indian philosophy and scriptures consistent with the traditional, ethnical, and moral standards of a place of worship.
What it reported doing in 2025
Religious activitites held at temple
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.15; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $818K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.