Liv Forum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392270371
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Vienna, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5715850480
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,466
- Expenses
- $12,579
- Assets
- $176,208
- Liabilities
- $5,321
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRANJOT (PRESIDENT/DI)
People named in this filing
- ARJUN SETHI (TREASURER/DI)
- RYAN KOHLI (SECRETARY/DI)
- KIRANJOT (PRESIDENT/DI)
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
Liv forum for panjab and sikh affairs offers policymakers and organizations independent research and analysis to aid informed decision-making on panjab-related matters in india and sikh-related matters globally.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides education, research and analysis to aid informed dicision-making on panjab-related matters in india and sikh-related matters globally. This is accomplished by a weekly digest (52 publishes of top 10 news and analysis) and reports and fact shees (4 publishes of data-driven understanding & recommendations).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 56
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 93.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.01; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 56.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 4/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.