Karya Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921026842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4084768656
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,000
- Expenses
- $3,662
- Assets
- $4,806
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jayaprasad Vejendla (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Jayaprasad Vejendla (CEO)
- Ajitha Vejendla (CFO)
- Bhanu Kishore Datla (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
Karya is a non-profit organisation focused on Social Value investing and bringing a change at the grassroots level. We at Karya are engineering change at the basic level in the field of education, healthcare, and disaster relief (Climate Change & Food Safety) with special focus on entrepreneurship development and enablement.Karya has a global footprint on the three major continents of North America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. We have impacted local and rural areas in the US, India, and Nairobi.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided Education support; Recognized by Sewa International; Mobile clinic projects and, Participated in mental health programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -178.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -115% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.