Overseas Volunteer for a Better India Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463380832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2024689474
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,810
- Expenses
- $27,931
- Assets
- $299,676
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SATEJ CHAUDHARY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SATEJ CHAUDHARY (PRESIDENT)
- VINESH VIRANI (SECRETARY)
- ARAVIND K KALLAHALLY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Overseas volunteer for a better india, inc., has been organized to provide educational programs, benevolent assistance, rehabilitation, trauma & disaster relief and charitable giving to individuals and organizations primarily in india and united states of america. More specifically, ovbi will provide a platform to address core issues affecting india, such as, farmer suicides, trauma relief and benevolent assistance. By providing these educational programs, ovbi will equip individuals with tools to make informed decisions and choices in both democratic processes and their lives. During 2020, ovbi spent $204,224 towards achieving such objectives. The amounts were spent primarily in educating individuals by organizing and participating in various events, aimed at stimulating participants to come up with relevant, socially responsible ideas that would help rehabilitation, trauma relief, education efforts, nation building and participation by individuals in such processes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Water project - farmers welfare: mission of the program is to help farmers and stop farmer suicides. This is done by providing resources to farmers in villages of india to broaden and deepen river base to provide consistent water supply throughout the year and help sustainable farming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 62% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -380.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.73; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -62.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.