Layyasaaram Institute Ofindian Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454747927
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Excelsior, MN, USA
Phone
6306072958
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$91,553
Expenses
$75,254
Assets
$30,051
Liabilities
$157

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SRIRAM IYER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RAMACHANDRAN GURUMOORTHY (DIRECTOR)
  • SRIRAM IYER (PRESIDENT)
  • ANANTHA KOLLEGODE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Layyasaaram institute of indian arts was established with three primary goals. Perform: conduct indidan classical music and dance performances of local and visiting atistis in the twin cities and rochester metro areas. Educate: conduct music classes to impart training in indian music and dance in the twin cities and rochester metro area. Organize lecture demonstrations and workshops. Collaborate: conduct concert tours of established and upcoming artists from india. Sponsor p3-performer visas. Get authorization from the american federation of musicians. Sponsor international and local travel, hosting, and logistics. Coordinate with local organizations in various cities in north america USA and canada primarily. In 2014 the organization to further its "educate" mission started teaching with the help of rochester vidyalaya.

What it reported doing in 2025

Held several events in earlier years: 2024 events fall 2024 tour by flute brothers - herambh and hemanth our fall 2024 tour featured the young and dynamic duo herambh and hemanth on the flute accompanied by thanjavur murugaboopathi on the mridangam and guruprasad on the ghatam. Yet another successful maiden concert tour for the flute brothers across about 15 different venues in the continental us. Oct 26th 2024 -shayanotsavam concerts at the hindu society of mn 2023-24 layyasaaram successfully completed over 12 monthly concerts at the hindu society of mn between september 2023 and october 2024. Concert 1: mullaivasal chandramouli on the violin with ethirajan ramanujan on the mridangam - september 2023. We wrapped up the last concert of 2024 on october 26 2024 with a concert by aditya anandan, a disciple of vidushi bhargavi balasubramanian. 2023 events feb 23rd 2023 - twin cities aradhana in collaboration with indian music society of Minnesota imsom included flute concert by vishveshwar nagarajan twin cities based community musicians student performances fall april 30th 2023 - a concert was held fall 2023 -us concert tour by dr k n renganatha sharma 2022-23 rise of margazhi festival collaboration layyasaaram is humbled to be part of this very noble undertaking - rise of margazhi 2022 - an online music festival that brings together a potpourri of cultural events from music and dance to food and fashion. Partnering with flute n feather dance company and Wisconsin indian cultural arts this festival seeks to raise funds for medical equipment and supplies for sri premika varadhan clinic in tamil nadu india. Sri premikavaradhan clinic offers weekly free medical care to over 10 villages. Fall 2022 - carnatic music revival post-pandemic celebrating 75 years of india's independence, we presented a concert tour by 7 artists - 5 leading melodic performers and 2 eclectic percussionists - a tour aptly titled seven - five. Fall 2022 - double header lecdem + concert in collaboration with imsom rise of margazhi 2021 - 2022 rise of margazhi 2021-2022 this is a fund-raising initiative for sri premika varadan clinic for year 2021-2022. Since the organization was unable to host an annual in person thematic dance production this year, our sole effort for this noble endeavor will be channeled through this online festival for margazhi 2021-22. Sri premika varadan clinic is a divine effort to help the medically underserved and underprivileged, in and around the village of maharanyam. Hundreds of villagers are seen and assessed at this site day over day, in multiple faculties. The facility has been expanding its capabilities and clinician base, especially during these tough times when more people need access to healthcare. The goal for the year was to raise usd 100k. Celebrating one of sri muralidhara swamijis greatest works, madhurageethams through various art forms during the auspicious month of margazhi layyasaaram conducted this event in 2021 thyagaraja aradhana akhandam - various musicians like murugaboopathi, vk manimaran, kn shashikiran, nirmala rajasekar and sriram natarajan from doing a virtual thyagaraja aradhana with 300 musicians, for 50 hours non-stop. Sri thyagaraja akhada gaanam is an idea that came up five days before the actual shoot but turned into a beautiful series of concerts with the musicians coming together to offer sangeetha samarpanam to the saint. Aired through social media on february 6th and 7th 2021, layyasaaram helped sponsor this event as well as helped produce the concert by vid nirmala rajasekar.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.