Hindus of Greater Houston
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943424274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 713-256-7424
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,327
- Expenses
- $263,214
- Assets
- $56,281
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hemant Jadhav (Vice President)
- Thara Narasimhan (Past President)
- Rachana Shah (President)
People named in this filing
- Gopal Aggarwal (Director)
- Manisha Gandhi (Director)
- Bhagwan Bhutada (Director)
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 promote Hindu Solidarity - Unity in diversity. To provide guidance and function as an umbrella organization supporting the needs and coordinating the activities of all the Hindus in the Greater Houston area and beyond. To broaden the access to events and activities of the Hindus community related to our religious and cultural traditions. To propagate understanding and dispel misinformation about our faith. To coexist with camaraderie, cooperation, and compassion with members of other faiths. To preserve cultural and religious activities and cultural traditions of Hindus for future generations. To preserve, nurture and promote Hindu Values. To uphold ideals of Sanatana Dharma, its values, and its principles.
What it reported doing in 2025
As the HGH goal is not only bring the Hindu community at large in the local Houston community but also extend our support to crisis that Hindus face across the globe. We bring attention to the difficulties and hardships people face in many parts of the world. Representatives from over 28 Hindu temples and organizations met at VPSS wherein the nature of collaborative activities, plans for and strengthening the Hindu community was discussed. The VHPA Hindu Heritage Camp was transferred in 2018 and conducted by HGH since then. This camp attacts Hindu children and youth for 2 weekends in large numbers. The entire camp is mentored by Past Alumni from the Camp. The success rate of this camp was the signature reason for activating and aligning it with HGH HGH raised funds for Hindu Heritage Campsite which is built in Columbus
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 4.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $260K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.