Shree Swaminarayan Temple - Vadtal Dham Fremont
Legal name: Laxmi Narayan Dev Spriritual O
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870804825
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Fremont, CA, United States
- Phone
- (408) 324-6859
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,193,273
- Expenses
- $387,412
- Assets
- $7,189,868
- Liabilities
- $2,879,927
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kunal Desai (President)
- Swetal Patel (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kunal Desai (President)
- Swetal Patel (Vice President)
- Udvit Mehta (Treasurer)
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
Provide children and their parents with the opportunity to expand their educational horizons and to broaden their understanding of Indian culture (Gujarati) while propagating the teachings and principles of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. LNSO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2007. LNSO's mission is to provide children and their parents with the opportunity to expand their educational horizons and to broaden their understanding of the Indian Culture, its language (Gujarati) and propagate the teachings & principles of Swaminarayan Sampradaya. Since a large part of our success is due to support of the community we make it one of our goals to give back to our local community as much as possible by doing community service.
What it reported doing in 2025
Get together for festivals and spiritual services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 82.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.56; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 19% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.