India Association of Buffalo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112582693
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Williamsville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7163930323
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,242
- Expenses
- $30,741
- Assets
- $41,983
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lavanya Dokania (President)
- Nathusingh Rathod (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Lavanya Dokania (President)
- Nathusingh Rathod (Vice-President)
- Vaibhav Goel (General 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Public Charity focused on Arts and culture
What it reported doing in 2024
Pancham Event, a musical event, celebrating a renowned Indian musician, attended by 350+
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.