Kaveri Kannada Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237367337
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ashburn, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2408327013
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,454
- Expenses
- $107,055
- Assets
- $343,389
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rohini Banavar (President)
- Mohan Venkobdas (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sudhir Sharma (Member - Board of Trustees)
- Satish Belagutti (Member - Board of Trustees)
- Mythri Jayadev (Member - Board of Trustees)
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
Public charity organization to preserve and promote Kannada language and cultural heritage among the Kannada speaking people in the United States
What it reported doing in 2025
Cultural Event - Deepavali(Diwali). The organization celebrated the Deepavali festival cultural event during the month of November. more than 250 people attended the cultural festivities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.21; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.