Sai Datta Peetham

Overview

Mission

Peetham focusses its charity mission to feed the hungry and to help the needy (e.g., Nithya Annadhanam and Sandwich Seva). It also aims to spread Sai Baba’s message and teachings on charity. Baba said – ‘Wealth is really a means to work out dharma. If one uses it merely for personal enjoyment, it is vainly spent’. Peetham has donated and encouraged devotees to contribute towards school supplies to the needy but studious children of our community. Donating the school supplies to the children is a gesture of our mission to serve the South Plainfield Community. After all, we are a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a message to the world. The Peetham’s mission is to follow Sai Baba’s words and put them into action to help our community. Peetham donated back to school supplies to some needy children with the help of South Plainfield councilman Derryck White an.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

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: 21
• Transparency & Controls: 92
• Accountability: 70
• Sustainability: 41
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
• Where the money goes: 23.8% of revenue deployed · 23.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $322K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
• Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 4 filed schedules
• Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.