Raksha Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582190065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4048760670
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,794,282
- Expenses
- $1,779,377
- Assets
- $2,992,400
- Liabilities
- $177,685
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NISHA KAPIL (President)
Highest reported compensation
- APARNA BHATTACHARYYA (Executive Dir.): $111,425 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Raksha - meaning "protection" in serveral south asian languages - is a Georgia-based nonprofit organization for the south asian american community. Raksha's mission is to promote a stronger and healthier south asian community through confidential support services, education, and advocacy. Raksha works towards healing, empowerment, and justice for south asian survivors of violence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raksha, inc. Provides free and confidential direct support services such as multilingual counseling, case management, advocacy, economic empowerment, scattered transitional housing and other services to survivors. Raksha, inc. Social services include face to face counseling, telephoneand virtual counseling, facilitating and hosting monthly support groups/sessions training about working with survivors to law enforcement and social service agencies, and community education and engagement on resources for survivors, their legal rights as survivors.in 2024, raksha served more than 525 survivors and their families and provided over $190,000 in emergency financial assistance for housing, food, transportation, legal services, and other urgent needs. Survivors and their families were able to stay safely housed for more than 1400 nights, access over 7000 meals, and take 320 transportation assistance services for jobs, court appointments, and other necessary appointments. All of this was in addition to our core services of providing 529 hours of specialized therapy and thousands of hours of advocacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $478.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.