Nanak Naam
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851615037
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cypress, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8322642468
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Sikhism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,563
- Expenses
- $135,563
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jaspal S Sagoo (Trustee)
- Gurdev S Bansal (Trustee)
- Rajbir S Mudhar (Trustee)
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
The organization's purpose is for the public benefit the advancement of the Sikh religion, primarily but not exclusively, in particular the ancient practice of meditation. At Nanak Naam, we’re here to support you through life’s questions and challenges. Our Facebook Community Group is a warm and welcoming space where you can ask about Gurmat, spirituality, relationships, marriage, or anything on your mind. It’s a place where people share their thoughts, ask questions, and offer support to one another. If you’re feeling stuck, searching for answers, or just need someone to listen, we’d love for you to join us and be part of this growing community. []( Join Our Community.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 Nanak Naam launched a new initiative called Poetic Translation of JapJi Sahib for the next generation.
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
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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 56.1%; 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: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -71.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 56.1% of revenue deployed · 56.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.