Prashanthi Nilayam

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471146615
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Tracy, CA, USA
Phone
4082501954
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$399,610
Expenses
$187,376
Assets
$3,157,569
Liabilities
$958,494

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Urupattur Sridharan (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ramu Malaiyandi (Officer)
  • Urupattur Sridharan (President)
  • Krishna Doddam Reddy (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

Serve unhoused community with food, clothes and essentials; support local shelters with providing meal items, clothes, and essentials for the residents as well as offer computer literacy and career search help as needed for the shelter residents and low income families; conduct regular weekly Devotional services to the devotees; regular weekly spiritual educational classes/sessions for the children and adults; conduct large special events with service, devotion and spiritual illumination contents. Other events include Community Easter Celebration and Chrismas Caroling for the unhoused folks at the local shelter.

What it reported doing in 2024

Served total of 25,000 lunch meals(500 meals per week over 3days per week) to the unhoused folks in downtown area in San Jose, CA; breakfast meal items were delivered twice a month to the shelter residents at the Tracy Homeless Shelter, totaling 8000 meals for the year; delivered 360 pasta/garlic bread dinner meals along with fruits and additional groceries as needed to the Missionaries of Charity in San Francisco, to feed 60 homeless folks, every other months; distributed 120 sets of winter accessories each consisting of beanies, gloves, and socks to unhoused folks in downtown San Jose ; delivered 50 winter blankets each to Sunnyvale Armory and to the Missionaries of Charity; served 145 winter blankets to residents of homeless shelter in Modesto. Distributed essentials such as, toilet rolls, shoes, socks, tents, hygiene kits on an ongoing basis to the folks living in the encampments around downtown San Jose.Community projects conducted by Prashanthi Nilayam:1. Hosted two Red Cross Community blood drives, in August and December 2024. 2. Free eye camp conducted on August 24 where free eye checkup, free prescriptionglasees and reading glasses were given out to shelter residents and low income families from Tracy, Manteca and Lathrop central valley areas in California. 3. Community Easter Celebration, April 2024.4. Tree planting at the property ongoing around the year planting of fruit trees, flower bearing trees and rose & flower plants were planted around the property as part of the Envirocare and Earth Day5. Conducted Yoga Retreat to the community in June 2024.6. Started the Computer Literacy classes in December to the residents at the Tracy shelter. 7. Christmas Carolling by the children and the adults at the Homeless Shelter in Modesto, CA, December 2024.WeeklyDevotional and Illumination Activities at Prashanthi Nilayam Sundays4pm - Sai Spiritual Education for children ages 4 thru 154:15pm - Adults Study Circle - study of spiritual and muti-faith messages from Sathya Sai Baba5:30pm - Devotional Session - Singing the Glory of God including muti-faith songs. Mondays7:30pm Prayer: Chanting of HymnsThursdays

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 32.4%; rating input score 32
  • Program expense ratio: 62.4%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd 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: 53.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.85; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 32.4% of revenue deployed · 62.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.