Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center, Silicon Valley
Legal name: Rajyoga Meditation & Research Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471988910
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Milpitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4089358740
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hinduism
- Affiliation
- Hinduism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,065,766
- Expenses
- $192,057
- Assets
- $5,028,118
- Liabilities
- $1,178,224
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KUSUMKUMARI KEJRIWAL (CEO)
People named in this filing
- KUSUMKUMARI KEJRIWAL (CEO)
- RITU PATEL (SECRETARY & CFO)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brahma Kumaris is a worldwide spiritual movement dedicated to personal transformation and world renewal; it supports cultivating deep collective consciousness of peace and individual dignity of each soul, and helps individuals transform their perspective of the world from material to spiritual.
What it reported doing in 2017
To propagate the teachings, beliefs and practices of rajyoga and brahma kumaris
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.9%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 10
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- 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: 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: 82%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 26.18; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 81.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 1.9% of revenue deployed · 9.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.