San Diego Malayalees
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821521195
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6196276627
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,753
- Expenses
- $60,391
- Assets
- $61,272
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Roshni Ramachandran (President)
- Neema Nair (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Roshni Ramachandran (President)
- Rupesh Sugathan (Treasurer)
- Cibin Sam (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and preserve Malayalee/Kerala cultural heritage through community, educational, and cultural programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
SanMa organized its annual Winter Cultural Celebration to promote Kerala/Malayalee cultural heritage through dance, music, drama, and shared traditional meals in a public school venue. The event engaged approximately 600 participants, including around 150 community performers and 200 volunteers supporting programming, food service, stage operations, and logistics. The program provided an inclusive, intergenerational cultural experience at scale. Selected moments from the celebration were also reflected in SanMa's community magazine, supporting ongoing cultural documentation and community engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.