Sai Global Mission

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461085415
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Phone
4086010237
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,816,061
Expenses
$3,847,543
Assets
$160,360
Liabilities
$201

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • DR SHELLY GUPTA (Director): $65,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sai Global Mission (SGM) is a Non-Profit Organization focused on Societal advancement initiatives for helping rural communities and offering free services to the underserved in the areas of healthcare, education, nutrition and rural care irrespective of race, religion, gender, age, caste, creed, economic status, sexual orientation and country of origin. Every individual and every child matter to SGM. SGM embraces an all-inclusive approach by offering its services to anyone in need of the same without any discrimination. SGM provides free lifesaving heart surgeries for underprivileged children globally and provides access to quality-based holistic education and nutritious breakfast meals to children from rural communities in India. The program also provides free medical camps and nutritious meals, clean drinking water to several villages in India, and supports any disaster relief initiatives to help the underprivileged. As part of expanding rural healthcare initiatives, SGM has expanded

What it reported doing in 2024

Sri Sathya Sai Health & Education Trust 303, Tara Apartment, 132 Infantry Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 560001 Description: The Sri Sathya Sai Health & Education Trust is dedicated to saving the lives of underprivileged children affected by congenital heart disease, providing free surgeries and essential medical care to offer these children a healthier future. Beyond treatment, the Trust takes a comprehensive approach, focusing on outreach screenings of children to ensure early intervention, along with health education and antenatal care for pregnant women to support healthy pregnancies and to ensure to ensure healthy children are delivered. Neonatal and postnatal care are integral components, ensuring that mothers and newborns receive essential support immediately after birth. The trust saves lives and through its initiatives prevent child and maternal mortality.Advocating for every childs Right to a Healthy Childhood, the Trust emphasizes prevention, early diagnosis and conducts consultation to ensure timely intervention and care. The Trusts research efforts are focused on understanding the causes of congenital heart disease and developing preventive strategies to reduce its occurrence. Skilled medical, nursing, and allied healthcare providers are educated and trained to collectively address the challenge of congenital heart disease. With this holistic approach - combining intervention through surgeries, outreach screenings, antenatal and neonatal care, educational training, and research, the Trust is committed to building a healthier future for children worldwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: $215.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.