Murugan Temple of St. Louis
Legal name: Murugan Temple of St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853731003
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wildwood, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148250805
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $508,041
- Expenses
- $135,410
- Assets
- $1,631,866
- Liabilities
- $4,002
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lakshmanan Shanmugam (President)
- Mani Subramaniam (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lakshmanan Shanmugam (President)
- Mani Subramaniam (Vice President)
- Narayanan Narayanan (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission To uphold the glory of Lord Murugan and build and operate a traditional style Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Murugan and other Hindu deities for the purpose of providing a place of worship, promote religious, spiritual, cultural, educational and social activities. To promote the Hindu spirituality and provide a place of worship. 6. To conduct educational programs (e.g., language, religious and cultural education) and to provide humanitarian services and other services (as approved by the officers of the organization) to benefit the Hindu community and, as appropriate, the community at large. 7. To provide community members a place for assembling and performing Hindu ceremonies and festivals. 8. To abide by the Federal, State and Local laws and the Constitution of the United States of America. The corporation may not enter into any agreement, nor may its members, directors...
What it reported doing in 2024
Ceremony to commemorate Tamil festivels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.05; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 23% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $127K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 23/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.