Hindu Temple of Central Arkansas
Legal name: Hindu Temple of Central Arkansas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472951255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, United States
- Phone
- 501-272-0794
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $413,852
- Expenses
- $259,639
- Assets
- $3,664,810
- Liabilities
- $825,679
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SMT SRUTHI KANURU (PRESIDENT)
- SRI SATYANARAYAN PATRO (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SRI RAGHUNATHA MAMMUDI (TREASURER)
- SMT SRUTHI KANURU (PRESIDENT)
- SRI ASHOK REDDY NELLURI (EXECUTIVE CMT MEMBER)
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 a forum for hindu religious worship, religious celebrations, and a platform for cultural, religious, and spiritual developmental activities based on hindu vedic santana dharma traditions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pooja services - conducting prayer services & religious festivals and spiritual rituals.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.4%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 55%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.6%; rating input score 78; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.12; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 33.4% of revenue deployed · 55% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 45 of 58 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.